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Summative Assessment
Commission Unit
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Environment
For this project I wanted to look at people being at one with nature. We now
live in our man made world and we stand out if we go to natural landscapes. I
want to show, through a series of photographs, that we still can be at one
with nature, even with our normal clothes. I intend to show this by
photographing a series of different terrains and dress models in the same
colour scheme as the landscape.
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Research David Spero
Settlements Off colours work
Blends in well
Composition
Hides the subject
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Justine Kurland Models match colour scheme of landscape
Divide between colour on clothes does nothave to match divide in landscape
Helps me with varying composition
Relaxed and natural feel with the models
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Alex Soth Broken Manual
Composition
Colour of clothes are off but still blend
Positioning of models
No one else in frame
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Economands.org
After reading about Soths Broken manual I thought it might be interesting to
look into the people who decide to live away from society. I found a website
called www.economads.org and I searched for places where Spero
photographed his Settlements. I found a place called Tinkers Bubble which
was a place where people lived that was only heard about through word of
mouth. It was a decision whether to go down this route but as I did not have
enough time to change my concept I decided to stick with my original plan.
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Location scout
First location scout on google maps Walked to location to shoot
Learnt hard way not to do this!
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Failed shoot
This was due to poor organisation of
model.
Late at night, camera shake.
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First Final Girl in field
Plants rise to waist
T shirt matches sky well
Softness adds to the image
Sky wasnt washed out
Colours blend well together
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Second final Boy in forest
Alex Soth man in forest
Gradient from ground to sky
Path creates clear background for model, away from hectic branches
Leaves on path match models skin/hair tone
Model blends in well
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Third Final Boy in field
Try to show the Bare Essentials
Plain landscape
Only 2 major colours in this picture, they blend well
Plain image
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Series
If I were to put my work in series it would go: boy in forest, girl in field then
boy in field. I would do this because there is a gradient from the hectic forest
to the plain bare essentials and a good in between for both of them. I ended
up putting them all in the same position because I think this dehumanisesthem, making them look less like us and it makes them look as if they are
trying to blend into the landscape.
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City
For my city project I wanted to the look at the main center of each town. I
found it interesting how businesses rely of the towns local people to stay
afloat. These people move around un noticed but all of them keep each town
alive. I thought it would be interesting to show this by doing long exposures of
people walking through parts of 3 different locations.
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Research Alexey Titarenko
City of Shadows St.Petersburg
Shadow people
People looks like flowing water
Clever use of inanimate objects
Places seems very busy I dont want my work to be as dark
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Mathew Pillsbury
Photographs popular places
More similar to my work, focusing on people passing through
Makes area seem timeless
People seem less important
Objects seem more important
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Test shoot - Chatham
ND filter with studio light ND filter
Wet, trying to play with shadows/reflections
Titarenko, trying to look for objects to look good still
Use digital camera to help meter
Worked well for test Shoot on 6x6 next time to make it more of a snippet of the area
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First final St Albans
Used path to lead into the photo
Photographed on raised platform to be above people
People make the area seem alive
Different types of building make area more interesting
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Second Final Harpenden
Hint of Gursky, horizontal lines
High vantage point
Still man adds more life to the image
Car trail at top fills up top of the image
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Third Final - Chatham
Couldnt find elevated vantage point
Monument and tree match up nicely
Tree branches lead towards monument and main subjects are in the
middle
Good separation between subjects in foreground and subjects inbackground
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Series
If I were to present these images in a series I would have them in the order of:
St Albans, Harpenden then Chatham. I would do this because I think the path
in St Albans leads you well into the next picture. Then the horizontal lines of
Harpenden lead you well into the next picture of Chatham which stops you at
the monument. I think this flow works well as a series.
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Critical Appraisal Part 1If I were to display my work I would put both series in a exhibition but I would
not exhibit them together. I do think both series can be linked up if I started
talking about people being more whole when they are at one with nature
but I didnt want to look into this so I would exhibit them separately. For my
city project I wanted to try and show that these towns are alive. The only way
I thought of portraying this was by doing long exposures of people moving.
For my environment project I just wanted the clothes to match up with thecolour scheme of the landscape so I had to have a lot of clothes to choose
from and a lot of locations. For the first shoot of my environment I was poorly
prepared thats why I had a failed shoot. After my formative assessment I was
eager to get on top of my work. I did and I was comfortable with the time I
had to get my work together. The same was for my city, after the formativeassessment I was more motivated to work. The biggest challenge I have come
across is finding a model who is committed to work when you can. I overcame
this by leaving a few days open to shoot and making sure the model was
available at the most important times.
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Waste
For my waste project I wanted to look at waste created by light pollution. I
was struggling to find a good way I could photograph this and then came up
with a clever comparison. I noticed that the light that is damaging our Earth is
similar to how light effects photographic paper. I then stumbled across NASAs
picture ofThe Earth at Night and thought I could use this image to get 3
images out of and make a photogram. I first thought of making a stencil tomake the photogram then I decided to make a negative that I could print on
acetate and then make a photogram of that.
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Preliminary Research NASA The
Earth at Night Beautiful but horror Gives our world another perspective
Lights mimic galaxies and stars
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Jim Richardson
Photographs work on light pollution
Uses the mist and clouds to make lights look
like stars and galaxies
Landscape of salt lake, night sky star trails
ruined by light pollution
Baby turtles get confused as to which way istowards the ocean so many die
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Artist Research Ori Gersht
Rear Window
Light pollution from night sky effecting the sky
Beautiful horror something bad in beautiful way
Subtle hints of what you are looking at, buildings just enter photo at bottom
Natural gradients in the photos make it appealing to look at, more interesting
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Susan Durges
Stream and Shoreline First saw this work at V and A in Camera-less photography
Shapes created by water are so intricate and detailed, great
way to capture these patterns
Leaves add sense of surroundings
Some leaves further away out of focus, adds depth
Waves cause a natural gradient
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Photograms Man Ray
Rayograms
Dada style
Uses different objects and textures to create
abstract
Plays with depth
Symmetry is used to add order in this randomness
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Photograms from 1920s
Played with direction of light
Gives us another view on photograms
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Contextual Research
From www.njaa.org: Recent studies estimate that nationally more than 30% of the electricity
generated for outdoor illumination is simply squandered by being misdirected into the sky. That
comes to $4.5 billion annually.
It takes, on the average, 0.47 tons of coal (940 pounds) to produce 1000 kWh of electricity, so
one ton of coal can produce 2100 kWh of electricity. It takes about 1.8 barrels (76 gallons) of
crude oil to produce 1000 kWh of electricity, so one barrel of crude oil can produce 556 kWh. The
wasted light therefore equates to an annual waste of at least six million tons of coal (think of theadded acid rain and air pollution!) or 23 million barrels of oil (think of the added oil imports).
From www.britastro.org: On average, 30% of the light from a streetlight shines upwards and
outwards. The light wasted by the UK's 9 million streetlights costs 110 million a year in
electricity bills.
In Britain alone, over 120 million worth of electricity is wasted per year from inefficient street-lights. A third of the light from an average street-light never actually hits the street - 120 million
a year worth of electricity is simply wasted.
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Digital edits
These are the crops and the final images I used for my prints. I decided tochoose North America, Europe and India because I thought they were the
most interesting places on NASAs picture. All I did was go to Photoshop,
change the preset to a negative and then play around with the curves. I then
test printed them, then edited some more then printed again. Before I had
my final edit I used a preliminary edit to print off on paper then I made a
photogram of this and decided to pursue this idea.
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Presentation
I decided that I wanted to show my photograms in a special way. I then
started to think more about this idea of beauty and how these people in the
highlights of my print are blind to the beauty. I decided to represent this by
poking holes in the main highlights of each print. I then want to backlight the
image so the light that shines through looks like stars in the night sky. This is
similar to Richardsons work where he makes the ground looks like the nightsky. After printing my finals I tested this and I was happy with the results so
this is how I will present my work.
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First Final - America
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Second Final Europe
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Third Final - India
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Series
If I were to present this work in a series I would do it in the order of a map,
like the original photo by NASA; North America, Europe then India. I wouldnt
have to have all these pictures together but they all would have to be backlit.
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Critical Appraisal
I would want my work to be displayed in a exhibition. They would not have to bedisplayed together as each print tells the same story. I decided to go with an
experimental approach towards this project because it is something I am not used to
doing, I wanted to try something different. Using these techniques I can say I am a lot
more knowledgeable about things I can do in photography. I gave myself a lot of time
for research at that start. This is because I found it hard to find a way to portray light
pollution through photography. I still had enough time to round my idea andcomfortably test it, which luckily worked. I think I need to try to get back up ideas
incase things do fall apart. I was lucky this time but I should have maybe been
prepared for worse. The hardest challenge I have found in these units is trying to get a
good idea I want to peruse early in the project timeline. I think this is due to lack of
inspiration so I need to go out more and get more inspired.