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Landscape topic photo gallery

Editing Process

To create one of my online photo gallery’s all that I have to do is find a picture of a blank gallery room like this. Then I just need to find the images that are the most successful then I will drag them onto the gallery in photoshop. After that i can play around with the perspective as in order for it to look more natural it needs to be able to bend and follow the wall. Finally after doing that I like to add a boarder around my images to make it look like a photo frame so I will add “stoke” in FX and then I also like to add “drop shadow” as it give it more dimension

Anthropocene

Landscapes

Topographics

Storm Damage

Overall opinion

I picked all of these photos the way I did because I wanted each “room” to have a certain look to them so I didn’t really want any coloured photos in the same room as a black and white one so if I were to want just one of two in colour and the rest black and white I would create a whole new “room” for it otherwise it wouldn’t look cohesive and would just look quite messy.

For the photos I picked only some of the very best I wanted to make sure it was only my strongest photos in order to make it look so successful. I feel like even though the image look quite small because of the way they are laid out you can still see lots of the detail within the images I believe having them in black and white helps that because they colours contrast so well making it appear more dramatic and making it stand out.

I think my favourites would be the topographic images as I feel the AI photos tell a story so clearly and successfully them being right next to each other so you can clearly see the similarities and the differences works so well.

Final piece plan

For these final pieces all I will be doing is taking these individual images and splitting them up and sticking them onto a larger piece of card so that they tell a story and look cohesive together.

For the mounting I will be using a large black sheet of card and the a slightly smaller white sheet on top of the to create that small boarder around both the white and black card. Then I will be sticking the images onto that top layer of white card with even spacing in-between.

I have chosen to use these three photos for one of the final pieces based on Anthropocene. I picked these three as I felt they showed off the main idea of anthropecne as you can see how the natural beach has now had lots of additions like the buildings because of us. You can see the structure that’s already been built on the left and then the middle is a close up of a section of that structure then the last image on the right is of construction machine which suggests that there will be more built on top of the beach.

I would also like to have my final piece of landscapes to look like this although it doesn’t tell a story I feel as if by having both of them together it helps it look more cohesive and less random I also think having both the black and white backing card works well with the images as there are in black and white so its monochromatic and also having just white makes the image a lot brighter and the sky from the photo can kind of blend in but by having the black behind it creates this contrast which really helps.

This will be my last final piece which is for Anthropocene for this is similar to the landscape final piece as I don’t feel as if its trying to tell a story however having those two images which are quite different locations and yet they look so similar works. It shows how built up and overcrowded it actually is in jersey.

Page Spread: design + layout – George Blake

Here I will show the design process of how I made my page spreads of my images from St Malo.

1st design –

After arranging out a design I liked, as well as adding the images I believed best suited with it, I left a gap for text to be included.

By adjusting the Images again I made some room for my page spread title, by also moving my text box higher up this made it closer to the top of the page and more easier for the eyes to be guided when looking at the work. Inside Its text, I wrote about my inspiration, Henri-Cartier Bresson.

Adding stroke borders, This help defines the image more on the page and matches to the text box, which also contains a bordered.

2nd design –

Designing the layout of the second design, I focused on the examples of male youth culture/hooliganism I saw within St Malo. Through selecting my edited images I have composed a similar aesthetic between these images inside this picture story page spread.

Whilst in St Malo I noticed that graffiti was quite common in the area, with masculine connotations being a quite common idea behind the idea of graffiti, I decided to include this in my work. Using a font that to me looked like it was created with a spray can, I used the pencil tool to add a rough level of detail of paint marks to further generate my impression of my title.

With the final text added, This came out quite well in my opinion and creates an interesting composition around the aesthetic I chose to present.

Picture stories: Research and Analysis

This is a classic picture story taken from the ‘Nurse Midwife’, placing black and white images onto an off-white creamy background. However, picture stories can be created into a more modern format, for example:

I chose this picture story to analyse as I feel it works very cohesively due to the black and white, alongside the way many of the images are the same side down the edge, for example, as this ensures the images tell a continuous story and makes sense. Picture stories are laid out in an newspaper-styled/ magazine page structure. They typically consist of:

  • A major establishing shot
  • A person at work
  • A detail shot
  • Relationship shots
  • Environmental shots
  • Formal or informal images
  • Observer shots

This is the largest image on the spread, the image which provides the most context about the article and can represent the story the best out of all the images. It should be the most eye-catching image within the structure to draw and entice the viewer in as this will be the largest part to catch eyes from a distance. In this case, this involved the candid nature of an older man playing the guitar in public. This would have been the major establishing shot due to this being the image most cohesive with the title – about the people of St Malo. Sat in the centre of the image, this becomes the main storyteller of the spread as it provides an insight into the life around the port of St Malo and the culture which inhabits it.

This particular image on the picture story must consist of four different assets. These are ensuring the person can be seen, their actions are visible, the way they are doing it is visible and including the context of their surroundings (where they are carrying out their work). This leads the image to describe a story within itself and add more detail to the entirety of the topic that the picture story is based on. This can also be seen within the major establishing image through the use of the busker, this can be assumed that this may be his job or hobby.

These images are usually minor within the picture story, however it provides context to the location that it is based on. These are typically images that are zoomed in on small areas and sections, using a short depth of field to capture a specific part. For example, in the images of the St Malo trip, this could be an image of something native to France, such as directional signs or seagulls. This provides a subtle approach to the culture of the topic or location, usually in a format of being the smallest or one of the smallest images within the picture story. In this picture story, for example, this consisted of a cluster of birds on one of the many beaches of St Malo, showing how hundreds of them inhabit their coasts and are a part of the rich culture there.

Relationship shots are those consisting of two or more people engaging with one another, candidly or in a more formal way. The relationships shown within the image may be romantic, platonic, hateful or a way that boosts family relationships. Many emotions can be conveyed through the body language captured; jealousy, love, anger, sadness, happiness – the list is infinite. This adds a sense of humanity into the image as it portrays the experience of average, everyday human life in a raw or memorable way. In this example, a loving relationship can be seen in a way that has the absence of posing, sitting on the floor together and happy. Whilst this is a small image, it is still significant in a way as it tells a story about how life is within St Malo.

Observer shots are those taken within the absence of posing – candidly and raw. This was the main ideology behind our trip to St Malo in inspiration of Henri-Cartier Bresson and his use of the ‘decisive-moment’. People within the image will be unaware of the shot as this means that emotion and actions can be captured in a more truthful, honest and genuine way. In this example, practically all of the images are observer shots however the actual ones show the culture of cycling within the town, the ambience of cafes and restaurants the regularity of busking throughout the streets and the continuous cycle of shopping. By shooting these images in a subtle way, it provides the viewer with a way to see the pace of life and how St Malo differs from many other places.

Stephanie Jung Artist Research

 

Stephanie Jung is a Berlin-based photographer. She’s known for her experimental take on multiple exposures. Her constructional shots show cities that represent reality but lead to a different as well as surreal dimension apart from our real world. She shows her infinite multiple exposure technique, this time with the help of the “Lomo’Instant camera”.

Stephanie holds a B.A. in art history and literature from Harvard University. She also worked as a translator, international affairs officer, and junior curator for the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing for three years. Such as she organised exhibitions such as “Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993” (2009) and “WATW: We Are the World” (2009).

I believe that her work can be considered to be a creative and memorable hallucination as the images look deformed and look clear that two photographs have been layered on top of each other creating a very special and unique effect for the audience’s eyes.

I think Stephanie’s work is very admirable as she uses opposing photographs and creates something special with them. What to must special effects only using specific camera settings and layering images on top creates a sci-fi/ science fiction movie effect, something that could be seen in the movie Blade Runner possibly where cinematic effects are presented through the streets and roads, this could send a link through the audience’s mind if they see something that looks similar to a hobby or just a pleasant memory.

Themes that Stephanie’s photographs could link to are Distortion, Complexion, and Disfigurement.

Anthropocene Photoshoot 2:

(Damn/Reservoir La Mer)

In this photoshoot I wanted to explore the impact of man/man-made on the world, and including the topic of Anthropocene and how it plays into it.

I explored the Val de la Mare reservoir down at St Ouens as I believe that it is important too to get many perspectives as from one perspective the reservoir may look very small and not full indicating that potentially due to environmental changes the damn has decreased. From the bottom the structure looks huge, it contrast to the photographic perspective from above as its not evident how extensive the damn is.

In terms of using photoshop and artificial intelligence, I think it would be interesting to paint the reservoir in a different outlook. Adding connotations such as “drought”, “desert”, “dryness” and “empty” etc. , this makes the AI undersand i mpre and adds the ffect as if climate change has

Anthropocene Photoshoot 1 + Contact Sheet:

For this photoshoot I decided to take photographs inspired of Anthropocene, I felt it was important to include the walls of nature and rock above snow hill car park as the opposing worlds between machinery below and the nature above looks quite appealing to the eye as well as the overcrowding of buildings in the islands centre, I took photographs overlooking the centre, the square and the lively streets . The second section of the photographs on my contact sheet appear busy and actively overpopulated due to the crowding.

I like this photoshoot as I feel it explores the topic of Anthropocene to a degree, the ideas of overcrowding and the opposing element of nature and rock are presented and show St Helier in a complex of structures having the coast right by it, alongside many buildings located in one area as well as the roads being busy meaning more pollution. Whereas one thing I would have changed is taken more photographs exploring other locations with the same if not similar ideas like these.

Cropping

For these edits, I used my photographs I took in St Malo. I decided to experiment with different cropping styles eg portrait, landscape, panoramic, square and circle. These lead to some unique, different images.

Portrait crop:

For this type of crop, I opened up a landscape image I had taken then used the cropping tool on photoshop in order to turn it into a portrait image. I decided to off centre the people in the image slightly and include a bit more of the background in it for context. The decisive moment in this image is the lady pointing.

Panoramic Crop:

For the panoramic crop, I used the same landscape photograph but this time used the cropping tool to create a panorama which involved only the top halves of the peoples bodies being in the image and some more of the background.

Square crop:

In order to create this square crop, I opened up an image I had taken then selected the crop tool then changed it from ratio to 1:1 (square). I then adjusted the image to ensure the two people were in the centre of it.

For these next set of images, I wanted to experiment further with using the different crop tools and other various tools. Firstly, I used the rectangular marquee tool to create a rectangle slightly smaller than the whole image in the centre. I then right clicked on the rectangle and pressed layer via copy. Once I had created this new layer, I then decided to colour it black and white. Next, I created a smaller rectangle inside of the rectangle I had just made. I then selected the bottom layer (colour layer) then right clicked on the rectangle and clicked layer via copy. This ensured that my rectangle was in colour and not black and white like my previous one. To finish this idea off, I added a drop shadow to the rectangles. This helped to enhance the contrast between the black and white rectangle and the colourful ones.

For this idea, I used the elliptical marquee tool in order to create a circle shape. I decided to draw the circle around the two people, highlighting the decisive moment in the image. I then right clicked on the circle and pressed layer via copy. Then in order to make the circle stand out I decided to make the background black and white and keep the circle and people in colour. Finally, I added a drop shadow to create some depth and contrast in the image.

For the next few images, I created a colour splash in which I made the people in the image have colour and then make the background black and white. I did this by using the object selection tool to select the people I wanted to highlight then pressing layer via copy. Once I had them all cut out, I then made the background black and white by going onto image then adjustments then pressing black and white. Finally, I decided I wanted to enhance the colours of the people so I exported them into Lightroom then used the colour section on it to change the hue, saturation and luminance. I like how these images turned out as they bring attention to the people as the bright colours seen on their clothes contrast drastically with the black and white background.

Panoramic crop:

I then experimented with creating a panoramic crop again but this time with a landscape picture. I think this crop was successful as it only shows the necessary parts of the image and got rid of any random objects at the bottom of the image.

Circle crop:

I then experimented with using a circle crop. I did this by using the elliptical marquee tool on photoshop in order to create a circle shape around a certain part of one of my images. However, I didn’t like how just one circle looked on a plain white background and so I decided to try out different things. For example, I opened up a new, different image and then dragged the cut out from the other image onto it. Then added a drop shadow to the circle in order to make the difference more clear and prominent.

Next, I used the elliptical marquee tool on 6 different images. Once I had all of my cut outs, I then opened up a plain sheet of paper and dragged them all onto it. To finish this idea off, I added a drop shadow to all of the circles. I think the many circles instead of just one looks better and more interesting and allows you to see more of St Malo.

Polygon crop:

For the final crop, I used the polygonal tool. With this tool, I drew a triangular shape on my image and then right clicked on it and pressed layer via copy. I then tried different colour scenarios eg making the triangle black and white and the background in the colour, and making the triangle in colour and the background black and white. I also added a drop shadow to both. Finally, I tried using an outer glow effect on the triangle as a way to emphasise it more due to the image being quite dark already.

For the next two images, I superimposed two images. I did this by opening up on image to start with then opening up another one and dragging it on top of the original one. I then readjusted the size of it so it filled the page. Next, I lowered the opacity of the top layer in order for the bottom layer to become more visible. Finally, in one of the images I selected the top layer and then pressed on adjustment pre-sets then selected ‘cinematic-split tone’ in order to add a green-red colour to my image.

These were inspired by Stephanie Jung.