What is a landscape photograph?
This is my favourite picture because it shows a clear horizon and I like the was the white stripe how it is a bit un focused so it make the background look a lot nicer
More landscape photographs
'Wrong' landscape photographs
This is the wrongest because it could be a very good landscape picture if the pole wasn't in the way. It could make people imagine what is behind the pole and what would the scene look like if there wasn't a pole in the middle of the picture.
Disrupted landscapes
This lesson we were told to tear up parts in a landscape photo that we took for homework then go outside and take pictures of them infant of another landscape
disrupted
Photoshop experiments
At first we made images by cutting out parts of a piece of card to create a landscape. These were printed in the darkroom to make photograms. I then experimented with combining a scanned version of my photogram with other digital landscape images I had taken.
This is my favourite image because although its got a lot going on you can still see the main part of the image however alot is going along aside it
Brea Souders
I like the idea of Brea Souders images because she's different to other photographers who look for perfection in images, however she likes to look for the unusual in them. For example the glitches or breaks in images. She doesn't actually take the images she goes onto google maps and clicks in certain areas and tries to find the breaks in the 360 cameras. Because not always the 360 cameras can't always capture every part of the image so it fills it with other parts of the images and fills it in with that. In the images above she found shadows that are faded out or that are abnormal, however the images i found are of different glitches in maps. the images i found are of when the camera goes wrong and places different parts of the image to fill in the bits that they didn't capture and this is when it looks like glitches in an image.
Google (Maps) Glitches
After we found our images then we put them into Photoshop and experimented with changing the colours:
Dafna Talmor
Dafna Talmor is a London based artist who creates series of images called 'Constructed Landscapes'. These pictures are made up not from 1 single image but many that she has put together in the darkroom.
This is my favourite image of hers because its not like any normal shape. It's like an upside down L shape rather than the normal square or rectangle.
Abstract Advent
We were given the task of taking 24 landscape pictures using the following designs as a guide.
Here's my response:
Developing and refining my work
My idea was to get landscape images and combine them digitally in Photoshop inspired by Dafna Talmor's approach.
Constructed landscape slides
I created this Constructed Landscape card by cutting up pieces of coloured cellophane and old 35mm slide images to create a new one. My idea was to use the dark colours of a street and yellow coloured cellophane to create some form of lighting from possible lamps that would’ve been on the near by street. Then we put the new slides into a slide projector to enlarge and photograph them.
More developing and refining
I decided to experiment some more with constructing an image in Photoshop. Once I had made my digital collage I decided to print it quite big and frame it. I then wantde to see what it would look like out in the school landscape.
Evaluation
For this project we worked on Constructed Landscapes. We did this unit by researching many different photographers such as Brea Souders and Dafna Talmor, We have explored these photographers because what they did worked perfectly with the topic constructed landscape. For example, Brea Souders made images that were taken from Google street view and she found all the glitches and unusual images and then screenshot them to create her own set of images. I worked on this style of photography because it seemed very unusual and unique and I thought it would be a great challenge to explore more of her work and also try and create my own style. I did this by going onto Google maps and exploring different areas of the world and try and find images that were like hers with like glitches and breaks in the photo and then create my own images out of them .
I then looked at other styles of photography such as disrupted images and also our own constructed landscape slides. We created our own landscape slides by using old images and cut them up to create our own small landscape. We then projected them onto a big screen through a slide projector and took photographs from that to create more. We then looked at disrupted images which were imagines that were out of the ordinary, for example images that had odd shadows or cracks in the sky etc.
I have decided to exhibit my digital collage photographs. I like the way they look in the school landscape. It took me a long time to work out how to make a complicated picture like this so I'm proud of my Photoshop skills.
I then looked at other styles of photography such as disrupted images and also our own constructed landscape slides. We created our own landscape slides by using old images and cut them up to create our own small landscape. We then projected them onto a big screen through a slide projector and took photographs from that to create more. We then looked at disrupted images which were imagines that were out of the ordinary, for example images that had odd shadows or cracks in the sky etc.
I have decided to exhibit my digital collage photographs. I like the way they look in the school landscape. It took me a long time to work out how to make a complicated picture like this so I'm proud of my Photoshop skills.