ILLUSTRATED PROJECT PROPOSAL

Monday, 20 July 2015

Illustrated Project Proposal

My Personal investigation is:  to create a visual record of "Landscapes from my Adventures". This investigation will include exploring the theme of Travel taking pictures of urban, rural and other environments. I will explore locations mostly in the UK but also exploring other countries that have been accessible to me. 

Background: I decided that I wanted to focus on exploring landscape photography, this could vary from street photography to pictures of the countryside and then in exotic places too. This idea was inspired by travel and looking through many images from magazines, brochures. I plan to venture across too many different locations, including London, Harlow, Bishops Stortford, Solihull, Worcester, Birmingham, Zakynthos, Edinburgh  and any other places I can manage to get to in the time I have. 

I'd like to begin by shooting shots of locations that show just the area and surroundings rather than focusing on a certain person within a place or situations. My idea is to then elaborate further into recording 1 or a group of people in a setting. This means that I do not have to rely on models to take photos and it will be easier to gain a to more photos in the spare time I have available. 

Photographers research:

I have researched different styles of landscape and street photography, and have found familiar photographers some which I have studied before but others that, are well known but new to me as photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Franco Fontana and Garry Winogrand. Most of these photographers shot in the era where cameras weren't as good as they are now and coloured images had not be discovered which is seen in the  from the people within in the photographs and the fact that the phots are mostly in black and white.

 I plan to approach this project by shooting from various perspectives. including architectural, monumental and then other factors like the rural countryside

The first photo is by Franco Fontana. I really liked this landscape photo because he has taken a simple image of a field and used editing technology to really enhance the saturation and make the image abstract. It reminds me of the artists work Pablo Picasso and it inspires me to experiment with editing my photos. 

The next photo is by Thomas Heaton who is a travel photographer. I liked this image as it shows the cool tones mixing with the warm tones and I like how clear the fog looks in the photo. I like the backdrop of the mountain ranges and will look at my photos around this. 

My last and final photo is by Lee Friedlander. He is a much older photographer from a different era hence why many of his photos have a contrast of black and white. I like the way he has explored architectural features within his photography and I plan to look at buildings within landscape photography and convert them into black and white. 

Techniques

The techniques I intend to explore as part of the project are Black and white, colour saturation and abstract images whilst using computer experimentation

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