Landscape & The City

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Landscape & TheCityDavid Bromley


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Concept for Projects

Landscape:

My Concept for Landscape is about how we consume food, the

demand for food and recently how weather conditions, food prices

have effected food production, farmers and us as consumers. I am

going to be shooting in my local area and want to incorporate the

theme The Garden of England as Kent is called that.

City:

My concept for the city is about how the city is fragmented due to the

combination of the past, present and future being intertwined into the

city. This means looking at architecture of what was once the city, thesame buildings still being there but almost forgotten because of the

need of urbanisation in small towns/cities. To represent this I am going

to be photographing architecture with multiple exposures to break

down the traditional rules of architectural photography


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Mind Map for Landscape


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Research : Landscape

Lucas Cranach

I have been inspired by the Biblical Story

of Adam and Eve and researched a

painter called Lucas Cranach who was a

German Renaissance painter and painted

a series on Adam and Eve and The Gardenof Eden. In the series Cranach makes

many visual references to himself like his

monogram inscribed on the tree of

knowledge combined with the lion's

outwards gaze. The Animals in the

painting also make a reference to Christlike how the deer and the lion living

together amicably in paradise.


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Frans Synders

Another Painter I wanted to Research was Flemish Painter FransSnyders who painted Still life of Animals, Fruits and Vegetables. This

series of images represents the abundance and fertility of the land,

the celebration of fairly modern agricultural methods but also shows

the toil and hard work required to make the bountiful harvest in the

top left and right hand corners.


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Simone Nieweg

In this Series "Nature-Man Made" Nieweg is interested in the small

scale working on the land and the interaction between man and theland rather than industrial farming. The series has a sense of

tranquillity to it because of the soft lighting used where there is no

shadows or bright light. There is also a presence of man in the

photographs even though there are no people in the photographs.

Also I find the series quite intimate because of the choice of camera

height and distance.


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Hannah Collins

The Fragile Feast is a series where Collins photographs the origins of

Ingredients of thirty dishes used by Michelin Star Chef Ferran Adri. I

think that the layout of the photographs work well because the twophotographs compliment each other because one photographs shows

the ingredient in detail and then alongside a photograph of the

landscape it came from. I like the shifting lighting between the

different photographs in the series from harsh sunlight to soft overcast

light because I believe it strengthens the message about where we get

or food from / it being shipped from abroad.


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Research : LandscapeFreya Najade

In this series Strawberries in Winter Najade photographs Food being

grown artificially in greenhouses so that out of season food in availableall year round. I find the composition to be central because of the lines

created by the rows of produce. The lighting is soft which creates soft

shadows. The series gives off a very clinical and clean feeling which

emphasizes the nature of plastic fake ness of the produce being grown.


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Article Research

Food price crisis: What crisis?:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19715504

Charity food banks serving record numbers:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/17/charity-food-

banks-record-numbers?newsfeed=true
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Location ScoutingNewmafruit

Broad Oak


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Test Shots: Newmafruit


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Test Shots: Broad Oak

I am pleased with the results of the test shots but I think what is working is to

focus on the detail of the landscape like the photograph in the top left rather

than having a more broadened view of the landscape.


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Medium Format Newmafruit

Some of theframes are a

slightly

underexposed

Avarage

ShutterSpeed:

1/125

Apeature:

F22

Lighting

Conditions:Bright with

some cloud


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Medium Format Broad Oak

I think I need to re-shoot this series

because I think the

light is a little too

harsh and there is

some lens flare in

some of the frames

and would be better

if I had shot on a

day with more even

lighting.

Avarage Shutter Speed: 1/125 Aperture: F22


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Final Prints Landscape

Time: 9 seconds @ Grade 3 + 3 Seconds @Grade 5

Time: 11 Seconds C:0 M:45 Y:55


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Evaluation for Landscape

In this project I have been looking at how we consume our Food and problems that we face in the

21st Century about Food Prices and Food Sustainability. In terms of my Understanding of the context

I have found out about how bad weather conditions have increased the prices of Staple crops which

has had a domino effect on suppliers and consumers. I have looked at painters such as Frans Snyder's

who painted about the fertility and prosperity of the land and Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach

who painted the depiction of Adam and Eve. The reasons behind my photographic choices are that I

wanted a print to focus on the detail of the landscape and a print to focus on the broader view of the

landscape as a whole. I think I have been more inspired by the work of Hannah Collins and FreyaNajade because I find their work more interesting because they highlight more alarming issues

concerning food about we can get whatever food we want whenever we want it due to Importing

and Exporting and Artificially growing food. I think I want to overhaul my landscape project because I

feel that my ideas have changed since starting and I want to still stay on the subject of how we

consume food but move on to how Agriculture has changed e.g. Out of season foods can be available

all year round. This means trying to get access to food greenhouses and photographing food

production in a way that is more modern than traditional. In terms of Time management I think I

have done alright but to improve I need to look more constantly for sources of new Inspiration and

try to improve on multitasking with multiple projects at once. I think the biggest challenge for me in

this project has been shooting in the right lighting conditions because my colour landscape lighting is

too harsh and it bleaches out the landscape so to overcome this I need to shoot on an overcast day

to minimise the harshness of light.


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Mind Map for City


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Research for CityAlexey Titenrenko

In this very politically agenda series "Nomenklatura of Signs" Titenrenko represents the

injustice suffered by the Russian People because of the totalitarian regime of the Soviet

Union during the Cold War. The series was created by overlapping of several negatives,

traditional photographs, individual objects and installations. I think that the images chosen

to be overlapped work well because of the complex lines and shapes created. Text also

works well within this series and unusual angles because they are visually stimulating again

because of different textures and architecture use.


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Research for City

Yenny Huber: 48 Hours

The Series "48 Stunden/ Hours"

explores the many faces of a

city, its diversity and

contradictions, it looks not only

at places of wealth and

prosperity but also those than

have been neglected and

forgotten. It engages with the

deep complexity that is

embedded within every centre

of history and culture. I admirethe strong a vibrant colours

produced by using a

Lomography Camera because it

draws the attention of the user

and helps the viewer engage

with it more.


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Research for CityYenny Huber: Urban Rooms The series "Urban Rooms" is a

global project about capturingthe ethereal beauty and the

overwhelming loneliness of

urban space that surrounds us.

This project visibly confronts the

loneliness present in large cities.

In this context, loneliness refersto the emptiness within as well

as the physical and psychological

distance between people. By

overlapping the same and

different images within the same

frame Huber separates each of

her images into sections wherethe views looks at the image by

the different sections also I

admire the use of street lights in

this series because it gives a nice

sickly ambient glow to them.


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Research for CityHans Malm: Forecast

Our Planets Continents are in constant motion, Geologists predict that within 250 million

years virtually all landmasses with merge into one super continent, in this series "Forecast"Malm travels all over the world, shoots a roll of film in one city and then rewinds the film and

shoots the same roll in a different city in a different country. The Resulting double exposures

shows different cities, countries and continents merged together. This series is an attempt at

showing the future- although this in itself goes against the very nature of photography. I find

his double exposures to be quite subtle and contradictory dreamlike because of the simple-

ness of the chosen location to shoot but dreamlike because of the complex shapes, lines and

tones created.


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Research for CityLee Friedlander

Friedlander photographs the street

in car mirrors which makes the city

seem fragmented, this is furtherbacked up how he splits his images

up through using a frame within a

frame which makes the viewer look

at the pieces individually rather

than as a whole image


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Double Exposure Test Shots

I am really pleased with the result of

this experimentation and I think this

is working because I am getting a lot

of complex shapes, lines and tones

that work well together, so I think

this is the way to go.


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Medium Format Double

Exposures B&WAverage

Shutter Speed:

1/60-1/125

Aperture: F11-

F5.6


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Medium Format Double

Exposures ColourAverage Shutter

Speed: 1/60-

1/125

Aperture: F22-

F8


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Final Prints for City

Left: Time: 7 seconds @Grade 5

Right: Time: 6 Seconds @ Grade

3

F8

Time: 12 Seconds, Dodge Time,

Left and Right hand sides: 6

Seconds


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Evaluation for City

In this project I have been looking at how the city is fragmented due to the past, present and future

being intertwined within a city. The reasons behind my photographic choices are that I wanted the

Black & White Print to have a meaning of the past and present overlapping which is represented by

the clock symbolising the present and the tree which is a symbol for longevity and I have chosen to

show the clock and the tree connecting to connect the past and present. I wanted the colour print to

represent my concept but in a more open space rather than an enclosed space. I wanted the double

exposure to line up with the shape of the high street to represent how the past is written but the

future is not set in stone. In terms of my research I have looked at some helpful photographers whowork with multiple exposures such as Hans Malm and Yenny Huber which has helped me in

developing my ideas for my Final Prints. To improve I need to look at more Architectural photography

than just looking at photographers that use multiple exposures. I think the greatest challenge for me

has been to get the best tones when using double exposures especially for colour, to over come this

for my final submission I need to think about what buildings I want to use like buildings and objects

that have similar composition and colours to make printing easier for myself in the future. In terms of

time management I think I needed to spend more time on testing rather than doing just one test

shot to develop my ideas further. The context I would place my work in is fragmented because of

conflicting elements within a single frame that breaks the very nature of photography. I am pleased

with the results of my Final Prints but I am more satisfied with the Black and White Print than the

colour because I find it relates better with my Concept.

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