I decided that for the triangle crop I wanted to to use an image where there would be a triangle type of shape already. I first tried with this lady sitting at a bench when I was figuring out how to make a triangle. Since she was in the bottom corner of the frame I chose a right angle triangle. It looked like the triangle was too long however since there wasn’t anything happening to either side of the woman so I adjusted the image so that it matched her position instead so that the bench filled the bottom and the lady filled the corner. This worked out better and is how I went about cropping other images.
I tried another type of triangle which I didn’t like as much and decided to create shapes by combining 4 different crops.
I think that arranging these into shapes can create interesting arrangements which I like the look of. I plan to create a large topology of triangles with different colours and subjects for the final presentation of this project. I will print the triangles onto A5 and experiment with levels like this:
I would like to use more images and create a larger piece however this is how I plan the final outcome to be produced. Some triangles will be mounted, some will be on the board and some will be below still. I might try some blank triangles also in some of the gaps too. I think that maybe I could create a gradient where one side is higher up and by the other end of the image all the triangles are lower down or it will just be a random arrangement.
I used the square crop for this image because I think that it suited it the best as I was able to zoom in on this couple and make them the main focus of the image and it also helped make the image look more like a polaroid image which is what I wanted to go for.
panoramic crop:
I think the panoramic crop was ideal for this image as it helps zoom in something in the image that makes it look more interesting to look at instead of having a bunch of empty space in the photo making it less appealing to look at.
landscape crop:
I believe that the landscape photo was appropriate for this image as it helps focus on the person in the image as it got a lot less of the space underneath the railing with the bright leaves which most people would probably be drawn to as they are very loud colours
I chose these 6 images for my mood board because I feel I can use the most inspiration from them compared to the rest of the ones I looked at, as well as them easily standing out. Despite them all being very different to one another, I feel they are all equally as successful as they incorporate different moods throughout due to the different colours and shades that are used. Within this mood board there is a large variety of colour, space, texture and the amount of text on them, which I will review closely so I can decide on how I want to approach these elements.
My favourite picture story on this mood board is the top middle one, because it has more space than the others. I like this because it doesn’t give the aesthetic of it being too crowded, which can often happen if too many photos are used. By spacing the images out, this helps the viewers eye wonder throughout all the images separately, as the space differentiates the photos. One of my favourite factors within this picture story is the large image on the right that takes up a whole A4 page. This caught my eye as it immediately told me that this was the main shot of the page spread, and it implies that the photographer was emphasising that this was the most important image. Finally, I like how this image is the only one with a border, which again helps it stands out against the other images as well as the white background
I have presented my galleries as if they are all in one gallery and you are walking through it so I can tell a story.
This is my first virtual gallery, it shows the story of my images that are presented like Dafna Talmar, the whole topic was about Anthropocene and I found that an intriguing topic to show my thoughts on it, as Anthropocene is open to a lot of different things, I wanted to show the side of pollution, littering and damage to out planet, and to show it in ways where you can see the damage and also the beauty. It was very important to me to never take away from the beauty of this island. I like these and how they came out, I really like the one in the middle and that is why I had it in full presentation, so it draws the eye, I thought it shows very well what I was trying to present, showing half a destroyed bad weather, littered beach then it was cut in half next to a beautiful sunny clean beach. The dream next to the nightmare. I also liked the way I cut it and blacked the edges to give the burn affect I feel like this gave the idea of the picture being ripped or even if u rip away the beauty you can actually see the dark truth of what the world will become, but I still feel it is very open to interpretation. Parts I didn’t like about this image was the ripping and burning affect, not only that it was hard but I think it would have looked cooler to have actually taken images and really ripped them and burnt them as I think it would give an affect better.
This is my next virtual gallery, so the next party you would see as you walk through, this part is almost showing into the future or like the bird one and the flowers one on how the world is, and even in things that are beautiful and that we all love there is rubbish, and how we should appreciate stuff more, I feel like this is specifically shown in the flower one because everyone loves flowers and thinks there gorgeous and summery yet you can see the destruction happening to them so if people where to my image they would realise they need to not only appreciate the beauty but do something about it to make it stay like that and not end up like the middle images which is the way we are headed. I didn’t love that this virtual gallery looks a bit dark and gloomy but also these images needed that affect because bright sunny weather isn’t going to happen in the future when the world is so polluted. when editing in al the litter I didn’t think it always look the most realistic, but that is how things are going to be and I was showing the future and overexaggerating to give a more powerful aspect of my image, expect the worst and people might actually try their best to fix this planet. My images show a lot of damage that will happen as I think it fits very well into Anthropocene and the litter side, and I was using artist studies as references to do my images similarly or to show the same idea of the damage and disgrace that will happen to this planet as I care a lot about it and feel peoples eyes need to be opened, and photography is a great way to do so as I am catching things that are happening, its not all made up its real this is life and we need to help it, so I think my images are very good in that aspect.
This is the next part of my gallery, and I really like it because it is more happy, when my other images are dark and gloomy showing damage to the world this one is showing beauty and presenting the nice parts of it. Obviously there are images of me showing the litter and what could happen, but its almost like giving hope to anyone viewing my image that it isn’t always doom and gloom and there is a beautiful side, of unlittered beaches and sees and sunny hot weather. I like all these images because I like to capture beauty and I think they are colourful and just bright happy images, I also liked the way they were presented which was similar to Michael Marten I just thought this was a cute way to present with the cuts in-between the images or the before and after of the high tide and low tide. They also aren’t my favourite images because i think some of them are quite boring and not eye opening or creative like my others as there isn’t much to them.
This is the final party of my gallery which is a past present and future version of the same image, this is the final send off for people to see, on how things used to be, clean, sunny, full of trees and nature, Then showing the developed meant of littering and population with more houses and just on how things have developed like a plane. the final image is how things will be if we continue with more clouds, darker weather, more houses then trees and more litter then beach.
Dafna Talmar was on of my artists study’s as I liked the way her photos where presented and wanted to attempt the same with my final images.
Here is one of my final images I attempted to do like Dafna Talmar, with my image it is slightly different as I edited and cut different images with pollution onto my sunny nice image. It is similar to Dafna Talmar because it has all the cut out pieces of the images stuck back on and burnt black edges around the side, its slightly different to Dafna as I did mine virtually using photoshop to burn around the edged instead of actually doing so like how she did.
This is another version of a Dafna Talmar inspired image, it is also a similar vibe to my photo above as I have cut in different weathers and litter into the image giving the burn affect around the edge, its still not exactly like Dafna Talmar because I liked her way of burning the edges and cutting up all the images in a scruffy yet unique and beautiful way, which I also wanted to do for my images, where it is burnt and cut and scruffy but still able to see the message I was try to present and the beauty of the world as well as the ugly.
This photo was probably my most similar to Dafna Talmar as I am not changing and adding anything to the image to do with pollution I am simply just cutting up one image and placing git in a similar or same place to create the burnt and cut up look, with Dafna Talmar though when she cuts its up you cant really make out what’s in the image when with mine you can.
This is an image from Michael Marten which I really like because again I liked the way he presented it, with the same image cut up and split apart, almost like its telling a story.
This one one of my attempts doing the same thing, I don’t think it is the most exciting but I just like the way it is presented and think there is a lot you can do with it. My image is similar to Michael Martens because it is also of rocks at a beach, and the image is cut up and presented with breaks between them/
This is another attempt of work similar to his, it is similar in the way that its one image cut into three separate section next to each other to tell a story, this one is slightly different though because I edited the the middle one to have litter and show something different in the same place for more affect, that could be similar to Michael Marten in a way because in some images he shows the same place but with the tide up or down, I haven’t done exactly that but I have shown the same place just slightly different to show what can and will happen to our planet.
This is also what Michael marten does in a lot of images because he likes to show ‘sea change’ so I have attempted to present the same thing in this image of the exact same place but one when the tide is high and the other when the tide is low.
This is an image from Chris Jordan I only attempted one image similarly to Chris Jordan, and that is because he used a real bird cutting it open and putting plastic inside, mine is edited from photoshop because I thought his images where cool and was a great way to get my message across.
This is my version of his image, i think it is very good and similar to his image as it is both dead birds on the ground with plastic spewing out of their stomachs, other then that the only difference is that mine is edited and they are different birds.
for this project I wanted to use AI on images that I had taken to try and show how we are damaging the planet in many different ways. so I want to use my images to make people think what can we do to stop it?
the idea behind this three piece image was inspired by Michael Marten’s sea change however I made my piece different to his and interpreted it in my own way by getting a picture in town and using AI to make a past and present image of what this image could have possibly looked like in the past and future. I thought this fit the theme of Anthropocene as it shows much we have changed the planet from the past to the present and possibly what the planet could like in the future.
this image that I edited aims to show Anthropocene through pollution that we have caused in the sea and on the surface of are planet I done this by using AI to add things to the image such litter and a construction site to the image. I think this image helps shows what we need to change in order to stop these problems we have that have been happening for a long period of time. I liked how this came out because the shadow is creeping up slowly on the other side of the image to represent the fact that the damage humans have done has almost taken over everywhere. I also like how the image looks similar to a painting which gives it more of a dramatic effect to the image.
in my opinion I think this image was a bit over the top with everything that was happening in it but I also think it still achieves what I wanted to produce and I think it does a great job at that. this is because, it demonstrates everything that is a problem in the modern day planet such as planes that are polluting the air all-over the globe along with the abundance of litter that’s been left in this location even the fact that there is a bin in plain sight
i think these three images perfectly showed off over population as you had all these buildings pilled up on top of each other with narrow streets filled up to the brim with cars everywhere which would get in your way when trying to navigate the small town. also another issue these three photos may represent is mass tourism which could be the reason why these small towns maybe over populated in holidays such as the summer and winter.
inconclusion I believe that I was successful with portraying Anthropocene in many different ways by showing various different ways we pollute the planet (overpopulation, air pollution, littering, construction and polluting are seas).
virtual gallery
for my virtual gallery I decided to use the images I decided was the best images out of all of my final outcomes. I decided to put them in a gallery of there own so they stand out and speak for themselves which suits the topic of Anthropocene. I also included some of my typography images as well to go along with them in a separate gallery as I didn’t want them to get jumbled up with my Anthropocene images. for next time I think I should take more photos so I can come out with more final outcomes and more photos to edit for next time.
The geometric nature of these post-war modernist buildings drew my eye to them as their repetition was mesmerising but also strikingly contrasting to the natural world’s arbitrary shapes.
The human obsession with uniformity I find very unsettling, especially when realising how dominating it is in built up and man-altered natural landscapes. I’ve tried to highlight the dominance of and cramped living spaces in the buildings by filling the frame, worms eye view and the black and white theme because it emphasises the grid-like lines and boxy arrangements.
The mid-tones make up most the images but to balance this out I made sure to increase the presence to add depth to the bricks and windows.
For extra texture I added grain which is a subtle but nice touch to make the photo look more worn, something that exaggerates their age and brutal style.
The final edits are moody and brutal which was the idea I thought fit the images best. Put in black and white and unsharpened, they give a murky impression. The colour would have almost glamorised these buildings when in actuality I find them all to be just eyesores that are perceived across much of town.
Formalism and Brutalism
Virtual Gallery
Evaluation
Overall I’m satisfied with my final set of images, the composition, ideas and editing achieved more than I expected they would. Though a small focus, I believe I have successfully delivered the message of Anthropocene in my work by displaying the towering and cramped feel of how we’ve designed our own living conditions and how we’ve transformed natural materials into these brutal and unnatural blocky buildings which shows the disconnected relationship between some of humanity and nature.
These 2 pipes going into and from the incinerator at La Collette. I decided to emphasise the reflective and battered texture of the pipes by increasing the overall presence, shadows and whites of the image. This also helped the lens flare stand out on the left pipe.
The beautiful clouds in the background of the image gave nature a presence in an image of mostly manmade components. To reveal them I lowered the exposure of the sky using the LRC masking brush.
Just to add a bit more tone contrast I used a graduated filter to the bottom with -2 exposure.
Like Albert Renger-Patzsch, I’ve made the most of the subjects fundamental shapes and lines photographing the pipes at a warped perspective.
The bricks, cracks and metal rail going up this chimney are all made more interesting and given more depth with the use of the shadow that takes half of the left half of the chimney. It’s important that the shadow isn’t too dark that it hides the bricks.
Similarly to Renger-Patzsch, the shadows on the underside of the pipes are just bright enough to see the detail of the scratches and welding, whilst the bright light hitting the top and right of the pipe reflects onto the underside making the tubes less flat. Additionally, the symmetry is broken with the same rail looking thing on the side.
Renger-Patzsch wanted to capture objects as interestingly and objectively as he could. Compared to my image, the blending between tones is smoother and tonal range is lesser so the environment doesn’t effect the subject too much. Though I have included a lens flare and brightened the highlights, the environment doesn’t effect the subject too much and still gives an accurate representation of the pipes.
#2
Initial before and after
My next few photos take some influence from Hilla and Bernd Becher as I wanted to capture the texture and shapes within the industrial structures but with a less dead pan and more cropped approach.
[Hilla and Bernd Becher ->]
To uniquely enhance the grate-like texture on this container of sorts I increased the highlights and blacks of the shadows of the image. Because this was quite harsh and unbalanced I added a brush mask around the ladder not only to draw your eye to it but to lower the exposure.
Additionally the spotlight was too dark so I made it sharper and brighter with a brush mask.
The crop gives more attention to the lamp post and ladder with the grate-like texture in the midground being quite distracting to the eye.
Slightly blending a navy blue in the shadows and mid-tones actually softened the grate-like texture further whilst giving it a more metallic appearance.
Final edit
I think the composition of my image takes great influence that of Hilla and Bernd Becher, but emphasises the lines that wrap around the industrial structures.
My use of shadows is more similar to that of André Kertész in this image here. The shadows almost paint over the scene.
#3
Initial before and after
The subtle blue added to the mid-tones makes the image whiter and cleaner.
The final B&W version came from an edited copy of the original
Final edit
In comparison to Hilla and Bernd Becher, I’ve tried to include sharp shadows to add contrast and add lines in my photos. Whereas their photos feature quite diffused and blob-like shadows.
#4
Originally cropped to focus on the the shadow of staircase
Initial before and after
After this version I realised a splash of colour made the image more interesting. Colour grading the mid-tones an aqua blue gave the de-saturated cream a cleaner, whiter hue.
Final edit
Looking back at the original composition of this image made me realise the negative space was important in effectively establishing the forms of the subjects in my image. The new coloured area proved to help the negative space give depth to the structures and divide the image into two sections. Additionally, the added warm colours narrates the direction of the light source some more.
The basic geometric shapes around La Collette’s flats intrigued me after seeing a variety of architecture photography on Instagram. My final images are going to be from this photoshoot.
15.3.24
This photoshoot was based around Havre Des Pas and La Collette with the photography duo Bernd and Hilla Becher in mind.
9.3.24
I was attempting to do some HDR photos with this photoshoot but it didn’t go to plan as the lighting, some of the composition and exposure settings weren’t at all very good.
I narrowed down my overall collection of images to these 6, but to by removing images one and two my final images could focus more on the geometry of the flats. This is because otherwise I find the other 2 less interesting and irrelevant when it comes to analysis.
