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1. Both could be described as landscape pictures. What kinds of landscapes do they describe? These two pictures describe a type of landscape that is called seascapes.
2. What similarities do you notice about these two pictures? In these two pictures, they both show the sea and types of rocks.
3. What differences do you notice? I noticed that the first picture is more sea based, it shows close ups and selections of sea, sand and rocks. The second picture shows a seashore with some type of peer and with large waves and rocks. The second picture also is in black and white whereas the first picture is in colour.
4. What words/phrases best describes each of these landscapes? The words that best describe the first picture is complex and unique and for the second picture I would describe it as textured and rustic
5. In which of these landscapes would you prefer to live? I think that I would prefer to live in the second landscape as I think that I have a clearer image what it actually is and It just looks better in general.

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BIOGRAPHY

Henry Cartier-Bresson who was born in August 22, 1908, Chanteloup, France who then died on the 3rd of August 2004, was a phenomenal photographer whose photographs helped show Photojournalism as an art form. He expresses his theory towards photography, where it implies that photography can capture the meaning beneath outward appearance in instants of extraordinary clarity, in his book of images à la sauvette 

He attended school in a village not far from Paris and in 1927 until 1928 he studied in Paris with Andre Lhote, an artist associated with the cubist movement. With Lhote’s help, her placed Henry a lifelong interest in painting which was a crucial factor in the education of his vision. Then in 1929, he went to study literature and painting in the University of Cambridge.

Some of Cartiers images had been exhibited in 1933 in the Julien Levy, Gallery in New York City. In the same year, in partnership with the U.S photographer Robert Capa and others, founded the cooperative photo agency called Magnum photos. This amazing organisation gifted periodicals global coverage by some of the most talented photojournalists of the time. This is where Cartiers concentration towards reportage photography became at its finest. The following three years, he was found in, India, Indonesia, Egypt and China. The materials taken in this time and in 1950s Europe, allowed him to create subjects to his many books which were published between 1952 and 1956. These publications majorly helped his reputation as a master of his craft.

In mention of his crafts which is best known as, Images à la sauvette, consists of an important statement with great meaning, utility of photography and technique.

“I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to ‘trap’ life – to preserve life in the act of living. Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”

THE DECISIVE MOMENT

The decisive moment is described as something that explain Cartier-Bresson’s influential publication. This concept is said to be internationally one of the most critical photobooks in the Twentieth century.

Robert Capa, described it as “a bible for photographers”

Originally titled as “images a la sauvette” which means images on the run in French. The book was published in English with a new title the decisive moment. It is Frequently described as “capturing an event that is ephemeral and spontaneous, where the image represents the essence of the event itself”. However, it is the complete opposite because it is about taking pictures in a dynamic and moving world.

“Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

MOOD BOARD:

Why is a camera an extension of the eye?

it is believed that the camera is an extension of the eye because it shows what one sees and is able to capture what one sees. Its also an extension because it can capture something that is not seen up close by the human eye but is captured by the camera.

What is the physical pleasure in making photographs?

The pleasure of being able to create an image that has simplicity or depth. The pleasure of producing images and capturing a moment to remember and romanticise. The whole process of producing an image is rewarding and quite fulfilling.

How can photography be links to hunting?

In photography, some hunt for a certain subject or a certain scenario or person. Like hunting, where they wait for the prey to come in sight, its like taking pictures. You wait until you capture the perfect subject, scenario, environment etc. Photographers are hunting for the ultimate picture. Its a decisive moment.

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Evaluation

Overall, I think that my pictures are obvious and powerful. This is proven in my images prt1 where it is a series of pictures that show different areas, highlighting the amount of population in the area, etc…populated and unpopulated. This whole concept was created by myself. I did this to show how different developed and not so developed areas look like and to bring some realization that, the images that show an area where it isn’t as developed, will gradually become areas that are overly populated due to the fact that population is rapidly increasing. In these images, I cropped the area where I wanted the focus to mostly be in, so I basically created a focal area for audience to look at instead of getting distracted with the landscape of the images. I think that when it comes to the editing of these images, I did really well, especially enhancing colour and meaning. However, I think that these images could’ve had some more creativity to it, like AI generated stuff to make the images more interesting and maybe some type of design on the picture or some type of zoom in to the part of the image where is showed the population, to spotlight what I was trying to show, even more.

In images prt2, its shows a trio which consists of a photo where there isn’t any monkeys, a photo with one monkey and lastly a photo with loads of monkeys. This was to show the past, present and future of what animals in captivity look/looked like. I think that my colouring in these images are cold and sad which was intentional as I wanted to portray what the animals in captivity feel like. I wanted the audience to feel a sadness wash over them, to make them feel bad for supporting or stepping foot on a business like that. I think that my presentation is clear in terms of what I wanted to communicate. I also think that the meaning is influential and firm. However, I think that there is some improvements I could have done to these images. I could’ve made the image that represents the past (no monkeys), as a little brighter to imply happiness because no animals are being held captive, the image that shows the present (one monkey), I could’ve shown the image slightly more gloomy and cold to display the sadness the animals feel, being held captive and last the image that shows the future (loads of monkeys) I could’ve made it really dark and miserable to indicate how the animals will feel as they gradually get stolen from their families in scary amounts.

Lastly, I believe that Image prt3 is a really captivating image. It has creativity and uniqueness and I think that the image is pretty self explanatory. The use of contrast between black and white and colour really makes it eye opening. I also think that the use of AI generated litter was powerfully used as it shows a world full of rubbish, which foreshadows what earth will look like in the future. The urban landscape behind the earth, in black and white, suggests a certain fault towards urbanisation. However, I strongly believe that the intention behind this image could’ve had a more obvious meaning. This could’ve been done by adding some text to the black and white background, like ‘reason?’ or ‘urbanisation’ plastered all over the background. I could’ve had some text at the bottom of the image to explain what the image is implying just in case people didn’t quite get it which would be alarming because the message is quite clear.

Finally, I think that my overall projects were really good. I think that the message I wanted to portray in my images were really clear and had depth. However small improvements that lacked in my images could’ve really made my images better and more understandable.

In terms of the compare and contrast, I believe that my 1st image has an evident inspiration through Mandy Baker, the photographer. I think that my image shows that complexity that Mandy bakers work has and this is definite through the use of cropping litter and placing the litter in precise formation to create something etc…Earth. I am also able to prove my influence of Mandy Baker in Image 1 by having bright, eye opening colours. However my work is quite different to Mandy Bakers. First of all, my litter is AI generated and her litter was litter that she physically found. I also outlined the colours on the plastic earth to give it more depth and obviousness of what I was trying to show, which was an earth created with plastic to bring awareness of what earth might look like if we don’t change. Finally, a difference my image has to Mandy Bakers work is the fact that I have a black and white background instead of just black which shows an urban landscape. My intention was to show what earth was gonna become and the reason behind it, (industrial related things).

For my image 2, it shows a series of pictures which one of them including loads of monkeys, the other with no monkeys, and the last one having one monkey. This trio was to show what captivity might look like in the future and what it looked like before. The picture with no monkeys, shows the past where captivity of animals wasn’t a thing and it was a time where animals thrived in their natural habitat, then the image with one monkey shows the present, which is where humans are stripping animals from their life and family for solely entertainment purposes. Lastly the picture with loads of AI generated monkeys, shows what the future will look like, humans will not get enough of captivating animals and will create crowded enclosures. These images are meant to bring consciousness towards animals who are being forced out of their home. This image is heavily governed my Zed Nelsons work especially in his work “The Anthropocene illusion’, where it shows images of animals held in captivity where their enclosure is painted or manipulated by humans to make them ‘feel at home’. I liked how he captured the animals in captivity and his message. My work is obviously themed by his work because not only do I captivate animals confined, I also show that exploited background created by humans . However my work is different because instead of leaving the picture as it was originally taken which was the single monkey in the artificial habitat, I created a startling reality of what humans will do to poor, innocent animals.

Lastly, Image 3 creativity was mostly mine. I took pictures of different places in Maderia island, some where it was overly populated, unpopulated, slightly populated and populated. This was to show how different places can be more developed or not as developed and populated. These set of images were made to also bring knowledge of that fact that the pictures that are showing a slightly populated or unpopulated environment will become the populated or overly populated over time, which should be alarming. However these images all have one thing in common when it comes to Nelsons and Bakers work, they all explore Anthropocene and bring awareness directed at the wrong that we are doing.

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Editing:

For this picture I opened light room, pressed develop and decreased the temperature by -26 to make the image more cold and exposure by -0.44 to give it a more darker look to it and then increased shadows by +60 to help give the image more depth.

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With this picture, I removed the monkey from the picture to show an empty enclosure using the selection tool on photo shop and saved the picture but then, using AI on Photoshop, I added more monkeys to the picture. As seen below.

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For this picture I opened light room, pressed develop and decreased temperature by -9 to make image colder , highlight by -100 to recover any lost detail and shadows by -47 to give image more depth.

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For this picture I opened light room, pressed develop and increased the vibrancy by +47 to make the image more colour and give it more ‘life’.

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For this picture I opened light room, pressed develop and decreased exposure by -0.35 to make image slightly lighter and highlights by -33 to recover any details that was lost and undefined and increased shadows by +44 to provide the image with more depth.

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For this picture I opened light room, pressed develop and decreased temperature by -9 to make image ever so slightly colder, highlights by –100 to make any darker part in the image lighter and shadows by -47 to ensure image has more depth.

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For this picture, I opened light room, pressed develop and increased exposure by +1.05 to make the image overly exposed so that when image turned black and white, it would be white washed, vibrancy by +100 to enhance colour in the image and then decreased saturation by -100 to make image black and white.

(Picture 2,3,4 and 5 were all cropped to make them into thin rectangles)

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To develop this image, I used image 6 from above, I opened Photoshop and uploaded image 6 to Photoshop. Then creating a new layer, I placed an outline of the world and placed it on the middle of the image. After doing this, I created another layer. Opening another tab in Photoshop, using AI I generated some rubbish and litter and then increased tint to make the rubbish green or decreased temperature to make the litter blue. After generating enough rubbish and litter, using the object selection tool to select each one individually and dragged the selected rubbish to the tab where image 6 was and placed the litter where I thought it was most suitable on top of the outline of the world. After filling in the outline of the world with rubbish, pressing on the layer where I put the outline of the earth, I deleted that insert. Then I outlined the green parts of the world using object selection tool and then choose the green colour and applied it. I did the same thing for the blue parts of the earth. This was all I did for this image.

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For this image, I opened Lightroom, pressed develop and I decreased temperature by -0.30 to make the image colder and more laboratory like and then I decreased exposure by -0.70 to make image less exposed as I thought that the image was too exposed and to recover any detail lost from the exposure.

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For this image, I opened Lightroom and pressed develop and I decreased temperature by -0.30 to make the image colder and more laboratory like and then I decreased exposure by -0.79 to make image less exposed as I thought that the image was too exposed and to recover any detail lost from the exposure.

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For this image, I opened Lightroom and pressed develop and I decreased temperature by -0.30 to make the image colder and more dull and boring so that people would see the zoo as an organization that is bad and morally wrong and then I decreased exposure by -0.79 to make image less exposed as I thought that the image was too exposed and to recover any detail lost from the exposure.

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