Mid project evaluation

Mid Project Evaluation

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Discuss what you intended to do as part of the project, has the idea changed?

At the start of my project i intended to simply photograph rural VS Urban landscapes, so i would have been showcasing the differences between both landscapes, so what you would typically find within those landscapes. So thats why i started to research photographers like Ansel Adams, because he is a very well known Landscape photographer, who was criticised for just showing glorified versions of the environment that we live in and ignored and any signs of human life and effects on the environment. So from this i decided that i would want to show how over the years humans have absentmindedly started to destroy the environment that we live in. I decided to keep the aspect of still showing rural and urban landscapes, so that i could show how humans have destroyed both landscapes but in different ways. I think that its better for my idea to photograph those environments from this negative angle as well as showing the untouched side of the environment, because it allows me to accurately show the impact of humans.

           What shoots were most successful?

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       In my opinion i think that my second shoot, Clay hill, was the most successful. I think this because well firstly it was my longest shoot, because the area was large and very diverse, allowing me to capture a whole range of different landscapes  within the landscape. I ended up taking between 200-300 photo and so my contact sheet was of 60 photos. Because of the diversity of the landscape it allowed me to capture a couple of photos that i could relate to two of my photographers, Ansel Adams and Heather Angel, whereas in my first shoot i was only able to capture one photo that kind of linked to one of the artists. Because of the amount of time and space i had for this shoot, i was able to capture, in my opinion, quite a lot of photos that were really good, especially compared to my first shoot, where i ran out of time and it was too dark. All of my images in my straight images were quite diverse, for example one of the photos was a photo showing the negative affect of humans impact, whereas normally i would find it quite hard getting a good photo of something that would be considered quite disgusting. So i do think that this shoot was the most successful and one of my favourites as i was happy with the outcome of the shoot and i would like it if the rest of my rural shoots were similar to this shoot, in terms of the quality and diversity of the shoot.

·        What aspect of the work requires improvement (e.g. a shoot, a technique, etc.).

     

\     From my first urban shoot in Ponders end, my third shoot, i found that i need to work on the time of day combined with the aperture, ISO and shutter speed setting of my camera because this shoot was greatly affected by blur as i needed to have a slow shutter speed as i didn't have a tripod. So i think that i need to experiment a bit more with my camera settings and lighting so that i can fully understand how to improve an image to get it the way i want, without having to re-visit the place where i did my shoot. To improve on this it would simply help if i just brought a tripod, or went back at another time. However after researching some artists, i would be able to link my work to theirs if i done my urban shoots of flat building in Ponders end at night time, using long exposures to capture the street lighting in my photos. I would also like to start taking my urban shoots

·        Where do you see the work progressing (identify future shoots that you would like to do.

    As i have completed the majority of my rural shoots, I still have a lot of Urban shoots to do, in places like North London, Southend and London city. So I plan on doing my shoots in these places, to capture the different types of urban landscapes and the negative human effects within these urban landscapes too, just like i did with my rural landscape shoots. I think that i will probably spend the whole day whilst working on these shoots, so i will need to plan them prior and have a bit of an idea of what i will be actually photographing within those environments. I think that i will need to do a little bit more research on some urban landscape photographers, so that I can have more of an idea of techniques for urban landscape photography because i have mostly been focusing on rural landscape photographers and their techniques, so i do need to have more of an accurate idea on what kind of techniques I can use I within an urban environment.