landscapes:

brainstorm..

i made a brainstorm to prepare myself for the task, i also did it to put myself in order, and know where i am going with the project itself. i know that i have to end up with 5 final images but i didn’t know exactly what i’d want them to be on. so when making my brain storm, i had to figure out different areas of my specialism i could use as potiential ideas to cover and take photographs of. below you will see a picture of me making my brainstorm, aswell as a picture of the final piece. below is my brainstorm of landscapes that i did in class. it shows the areas in which i will be thinking to cover whilst specializing in this specific category.

my chosen genre..

i have chosen landscape photography for my specialism. this type of photography has three recognized styles, they are representational, impressionistic and abstract. the representational style is also known as the straight descriptive style. Landscape photography is all about showing scenery in the best way possible, so that the audience get a feel of the well being of the image, or may even desire to see the view in through more than a camera lens. i’m going to take photographs of different types of scenery. the reason i changed from social documentary to landscape photography was because when looking at images on google, i thought it attracts a wider audience. plus the pictures look more ‘professional’. when researching the topic several ideas came as potential photograph ideas. i thought about using the fields where i live, and taking pictures of the surrounds in my little village. Doing my chosen specialism on landscapes is much easier than social documentary, hence the reason for wanting to change. i wasn’t happy with the images i produced, as i didn’t feel that they looked appealing etc.

My inspiration…

A photographer who’s work i was keen to visualize and keep in mind when taking my own photographs was John Potter. I felt his images were different in an unusual way to Charlie Waites’.

I really like this picture captured by John Potter. I think it’s really cool, the way the texture of the clouds is so visible and also the colours are so dull, yet the contrast of the clouds on the dark sky make the image bold.

This picture is also by John potter. This one is my favourite, i think the angle of which he has taken it is from a low angle. I like the fact the all the colours look so good against each other. And likewise with the other photo, i like how the clouds are shaped and textured. I got this picture off google, the link address is: http://cumbriamagazine.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jp13_borrowdale-from-walla-crag-22-aug-2008-4045.jpg

My magazine…

I have been hired by ’Essex Life’ magazine to supply 3-5 images of landscaping photography. I have decided to take photographs of things in my village or the village next to me, as i want to keep the images based on one area. i also want the ‘essex life’ audience to know of where i have taken the images, and more importantly, i need to keep the pictures based on Essex as thats what the magazine is all about. my purpose of taking these photos is for me to then show the magazines audience how amazing scenery can be. The context my photographs should cater for is an older audience as the people who by the magazine are in their older years, and into garden or beautiful looking landscapes. I want to provide outstanding images for my audience to ponder upon.

Test shot images:

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My first image:

original photo of a tree in college:

i put the picture in black and white as felt it makes it look more authentic. i also thought by doing this is attracted a wiser audience, mainly because the old fashioned looking photo’s are rare, therefore they are popular because of there rare ability. i then edited it using photoshop, i used the shadow and lighting tool to make the branches look 3d. I also edited it to make the tree look more bold. I did several different brightness and contrasts and a vast amount of hue and saturation’s. after all my editing i produced a changed image that looks like this:

My first final image:

This is my first photograph that i decided to use for my chosen magazine. i wanted to make the photograph stand out and be intense for its audience. i wanted it to catch peoples eye, even if people werent to pick up and buy the magazine, the image would have the intentions of catching their attention. i changed the lighting settings on this photograph  several times, i wanted the picture to be bold aswell as in a way dramatic. i think the lighting looks unreal, however it’s its unusualness that makes the picture half of what it is. i want the readers to see beyond the effects i have used, after all, my reason for doing such striking effect was for the purpose of drawing people into the ‘Essex life’ magazine. i decided to use this photograph on the front cover of the magazine. my reasons for doing this was it’s bold like i said above, which will be brilliant for attracting a higher range of audiences. also, i decided to use this one as it caters for my main audience, (nature lovers) aswell as the fact the picture is a5 size show will be proportioned adequately on the front cover. i want my magazine to be different from all the others, and i want it to be a hand size one. i want people to be able to fit it in their handbags so they can read it on the train, or show to friends without any hassle. my magazine will have a small amount of pages, because after all it’s quality not quantity my readers want.

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My second image:

I took a picture of my friends green, and the gate infront of her house, i thought it was a typical village house, and her garden was good for the creation i wanted to produce.

Making my second image suitable:

in this print screen, i did a depth of feild adjustment as i want the bushes at the front of the picture to be blurred to give an ususual effect. my reason for wanting them to be blurred was because i wanted to show that it’s all significant even if it doesnt always look this way.

the next thing i print screened was a clarify effect, i wanted the picture to look more sharpened and have more shaded areas. this tool gave me exactly what i wanted out of the picture.

this was my favourite adjustment i made to make the final photograph, i thought by using the Historgram Adjustment it really made the picture come alive. not only did it brighten the entire image up but also focused the trees features more aswell as the darkness of the branches etc.

My final second image:

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My third image:

when i was doing teenage obsessions i always have a person in the photograph in some way, whether it was their stomach or face etc. i want to bring a young person into the picture and make it different from all my other nature photos. i decided i would take a picture of my friend standing on a log, in great hallingbury.

Making my image suitable..

brightness and contrast, i wanted the orginal image to be spruced up and look like it was a nicer day than it actually was.

i enhanced the photo as i wanted the carvings and shapes on the log to stand out to make a better final picture.. i also did depth of field again on this photo, like i did on a few others, aswell as used the blurr tool to make the leaves at the back less important as the ones at the front of the photograph. if you look in depth at the photo you should see what i have done.

My final third image:

i took this picture of my friend tiptoeing on a log, i wanted to show that nature can be used in more ways than just the visual aspects. i wanted to show that we need nature for more than just nice photographs. we can perch on nature, stand on it, or just walk through it. i also wanted to get the message across that by tredding on this log, are we damaging nature? so many people approve and dissapprove of different ways to look at things. in my eyes it’s just a piece of wood, but in some one elses it could be a big issue.

this type of picture would go on probably an inside page, or the back page of my magazine, i think it’s a good picture as alot of old people like nature, yet because friend is tip toeing on it, with her ballet shoes, it may appeal to a younger generation. i thought by only capturing the persons feet it would make more of a statement than an entire full body photo.

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