Landscape

Landscape

Definition:

Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes

Image Bank

Artist Research

Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include Uncommon Places and American Surfaces, photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s.

In this image by Stephen he has taken a landscape of a mountain range and a house which sits centre of the image. Connotations of this image could represent the feeling of isolation as the house is small and has nothing near by other than a building in the far distance. The bright colours captured in the sky and colour of the house contrast to the isolation and emptiness that could be represented in this image.

Contact Sheets

Best Images

Images that need Improvement

Ao3

My idea for landscape was to capture the variety of different sights you can see within forests. With different angles and distances, shapes and textures, time of day and the weather; A forest can look different each time you visit and that is what I want to capture in my photography for landscape, the ways of nature.

AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.

AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.

The artist research helped me develop my images with the editing as I loved the bright colours that was constant throughout his photographs. I edited my photos to try and capture the variety of colours in the forest and make them stand out and contrast the constant colour of the bark that's throughout the forest.


AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements. 

Independent Shoot 1 (FE)

Independent Shoot 1 Formal Elements 

Research 

Sayaka Maruyama

Japanese photographer Sayaka Maruyama creates art that explores, recreates, and redefines the classic definitions of beauty. She challenges her viewers to look with a fresh perspective and to see beauty in every element of our surroundings. In Sakura, the London-based artist draws on classical Japanese references and Surrealist motifs to explore what she describes as “contradictory contemporary understandings of Japanese notions of beauty, from both Western and Eastern perspectives.” The conceptual art project features images that are soft and aged, with tinges of vibrant and unexpected colour blending across the surfaces. Maruyama layers her subject together with textured flowers and gradients of colour to form her captivating and mysterious abstract portraits. Viewers are encouraged to find their own definitions of beauty within Maruyama’s unique visual manipulations.

Image Bank Sayaka Maruyama

Contact Sheet 

Best Images

Images that need improvement

 

In the following images my camera or my model is not ready. In the first one the camera is out of focus, in the second and third the compositions of my model or the flowers was not thought through and my model was not ready for the photo to be taken. 

AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.

My intentions for this shoot was to incorporate flowers into portraiture to focus on the formal element colour. The photographer I found had all my intentions included plus a final edit that I loved and also further included the element of colour. I believe my shoots could have been planned in more detail as the composition of the photos did not come out the way I intended. This could because I didn't have enough flowers, as well as the flowers I chose were hard to position because of how small they are. I also think the stalks were too long. To improve in future shoots I am going to chose a better selection of flowers, as well as plan some positions before hand.

AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.

To develop my images further I edited them similar to Sayaka and to also link with the formal element of colour.

In the image above I have edited it to link it further with the artist I have researched. I love how Sayaka had a soft blend of two different colours, and I have created my own versions of this which I believe was very successful. To get this effect I used the paint brush tool at a low opacity and a softer brush. I then used the two different colours and kept changing the opacity in order to get the desired blend of colours. I then made the saturation higher, shown in the screenshot below, to make all the colours in the image stand put, along with lowering the lightness of the image so my image as Sayakas images are quite dark and I used a white background. I did this with all my images, however I just changed the colours of the paintbrush.

AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.

AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements. 

Progression: To improve my photos in the next shoot I plan to create better compositions with the flowers and to also experiment with editing flowers into any photos to create better placement of the flowers or experiment using them as a background. 

Independent Shoot 2 (FE)

Independent Shoot 2 Formal Elements 

Research Influence
William Lords

Image Bank

Contact Sheet

Best Images





Images that need improvement

AO1
AO2
AO3
AO4

Progression: what you will do to improve your next shoots