I explored the theme of Cityscape, I did this because I thought the theme was exciting and easy to adapt top, as there are many tall buildings where I live, overtime I began to get more frustrated, with the quality of my photos, they always seemed to be very pixelated and low quality, so I adapted from this and I tried to make my imes blurred, I did this by sticking my fingers in front of the camera waiting for the camera to focus to my finger then removed them. Which gave a blurred effect to the building I was taking a photograph of. This kept did two things, although you couldn’t see the building clearly the additional blur still kept a rough outline, making it clear to see what the photo is off when looking at it. It also kept the colour of my images, which made them pleasing to the eye.
I studied Hiroshi Sugimoto, his style introduced me to the use of blur, and after my response to him I continued to utilise for the rest of my constructed landscapes. He helped me develop my photography skills a lot, and I really enjoyed, his style of work and the look of it and I continued to integrate his style into my work.
I also researched Odette England, her style introduced me to damaging images and making them vintage, skills which I would also utilise in the future for my final piece, and other pieces. I used Sugimoto's style, in the response to Odette England's work, to add a twist on the images, as you can see I blurred my images in the Odette England response. I believe I have tackled threshold concept 10, that photography warps our sense of time, this is because I often edit my constructed landscapes photographs, to look old fashioned, vintage, damaged. Even though they are photos I had taken the week prior. When looking at them this could warp your sense of time, especially for the blurred images as you can't tell how old a building is etc.
During my experiments, the techniques I mainly focused on was Photoshop, for example by combining different images, and adding different textures, like creased paper to my images, I mainly focused on Photoshop as I felt more confident in my ability when I'm editing online.
I developed my work by using the techniques, that I picked up from different artists to my advantage for example Hiroshi Sugimoto's, blurring technique, which I used on some of my images, I then turned some of these images into an old fashioned vintage look. Then for the ones that didn't suit the vintage theme, I projected them into colourful slides for final project.
One of the decisions I made, was to flip Odette England's idea of damaged negatives, and instead utilise my skill in photoshop, and play with and develop the images there. For example by still sticking to the idea of damaged images, by textures, that I fixed into the images, but instead flipping the idea onto photoshop. Because of this I believe I exercised creativity, as I had to come up with the idea of flipping the way I made the images, yet still having to integrate some of Odette's themes.
I believe I have become more confident in my Photoshop skills, which has helped me improve my photographs which is a big thing that has changed along the way. What I found difficult about working like an artist, is the sheer quality of every image, every image has to be the best that it can be there is no laziness, otherwise the final outcome will be poor, I found this stressful, and very challenging when taking and developing my photographs.
I believe I have used my website to display my thinking and making, I have displayed many mind maps, and I believe I have evaluated my images well, discussing the process of making the image what went well, what could have gone better.
I have used my online exhibition, to show the skills I have leant and applied to my photography over the time of studying constructed landscapes, I also think it sticks to the theme as each of my photos in my gallery, are all landscapes that are constructed, edited, formed by me.
My final outcome is a landscape that has been constructed, then destroyed, then I have projected it. What I like about my final outcome is that it sticks to the theme of constructed landscapes, whilst also being creative at the same time, as the landscape has also been destroyed as well which adds my own spin on the work.
I was hoping to integrate some of Dafna Talmor's idea of destroying landscapes.
I studied Hiroshi Sugimoto, his style introduced me to the use of blur, and after my response to him I continued to utilise for the rest of my constructed landscapes. He helped me develop my photography skills a lot, and I really enjoyed, his style of work and the look of it and I continued to integrate his style into my work.
I also researched Odette England, her style introduced me to damaging images and making them vintage, skills which I would also utilise in the future for my final piece, and other pieces. I used Sugimoto's style, in the response to Odette England's work, to add a twist on the images, as you can see I blurred my images in the Odette England response. I believe I have tackled threshold concept 10, that photography warps our sense of time, this is because I often edit my constructed landscapes photographs, to look old fashioned, vintage, damaged. Even though they are photos I had taken the week prior. When looking at them this could warp your sense of time, especially for the blurred images as you can't tell how old a building is etc.
During my experiments, the techniques I mainly focused on was Photoshop, for example by combining different images, and adding different textures, like creased paper to my images, I mainly focused on Photoshop as I felt more confident in my ability when I'm editing online.
I developed my work by using the techniques, that I picked up from different artists to my advantage for example Hiroshi Sugimoto's, blurring technique, which I used on some of my images, I then turned some of these images into an old fashioned vintage look. Then for the ones that didn't suit the vintage theme, I projected them into colourful slides for final project.
One of the decisions I made, was to flip Odette England's idea of damaged negatives, and instead utilise my skill in photoshop, and play with and develop the images there. For example by still sticking to the idea of damaged images, by textures, that I fixed into the images, but instead flipping the idea onto photoshop. Because of this I believe I exercised creativity, as I had to come up with the idea of flipping the way I made the images, yet still having to integrate some of Odette's themes.
I believe I have become more confident in my Photoshop skills, which has helped me improve my photographs which is a big thing that has changed along the way. What I found difficult about working like an artist, is the sheer quality of every image, every image has to be the best that it can be there is no laziness, otherwise the final outcome will be poor, I found this stressful, and very challenging when taking and developing my photographs.
I believe I have used my website to display my thinking and making, I have displayed many mind maps, and I believe I have evaluated my images well, discussing the process of making the image what went well, what could have gone better.
I have used my online exhibition, to show the skills I have leant and applied to my photography over the time of studying constructed landscapes, I also think it sticks to the theme as each of my photos in my gallery, are all landscapes that are constructed, edited, formed by me.
My final outcome is a landscape that has been constructed, then destroyed, then I have projected it. What I like about my final outcome is that it sticks to the theme of constructed landscapes, whilst also being creative at the same time, as the landscape has also been destroyed as well which adds my own spin on the work.
I was hoping to integrate some of Dafna Talmor's idea of destroying landscapes.