Plans for Shoot:
My plans for this shoot are to return to Tewin Forest with the damaged images to show how the fire has damaged the photographs and where some of the images are missing. I will be using landscape photography in this shoot, as I wanted to return the images to the places they depict and demonstrate on the photographs the amount of damage that could be caused by a wildfire in the dry woodlands.
Image Bank:
Contact Sheets:
Images that need improvement
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In this shot I had turned the image upside down so that the removed areas would be more visible. However, the white on the back of the photographic paper creates a stark contrast with the natural landscape and so dissolves the organic atmosphere I was trying to create. As this wasn't a technical issue on this shoot, I won't need to shoot again as I am happy with the other images in this shoot.
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The composition in this image is challenging to the viewer as there is a small border of the ground showing on the right side of the screen which looks unintentional and also creates an unevenness to the image which results in a disjointed effect. I will not need to re-shoot as I was viewing the images while I was shooting and could see that the composition wasn't right and made the adjustment on the original shoot.
Best Images:
These are my favourite images as I feel these are the most effective in demonstraiting the damage that the fire caused the images. This damage also symbolises the damage that can occur to natural forests across the world at the hands of fire. These images are different from my last shoot as these are landscape images and my last shoot was a Macro shoot. The reason I changed the type of photography was to document the effects of natural destruction on the Landscape.
A03: REcord ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
My main ideas for this shoot were to return the damaged photographs to the location they were taken in to demonstrate the damage that fire is capable of. The images obviously didn't match the landscape perfectly as the camera angle would have needed to move very far back and the viewer wouldn't be able to see the damage on the photograph. As previously stated this shoot was different from my last as I conducted it as a landscape to incorporate the landscape element and the close up of the damage and I feel I was successful in doing so.
A02: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.
For this shoot I used a Nikon D7200 with an 18-200mm zoom lens. For this shoot I returned to Tewin forest as these are the same woods that were used in the original photographs that were burnt and then returned. I decided to shoot this as a landscape shoot so that I would be able to create a comparison between the old landscape and the landscape as it could be after a fire has damaged it.
I did bring a tripod with me but didn't use it as I found it difficult to maneuver the image into the correct position in the composition rather than having camera shake. If I were to complete this shoot again I would bring bamboo polls, and tape the images to the polls in order to capture the images from further away.
The camera was set to aperture priority with an F-stop of 9 which meant the camera changed the shutter speed to 1/40 of a second and an ISO of 1250. This ISO is relatively high but the lighting in the shoot wasn't optimal.
A01: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
This shoot relates to the theme of natural destruction because it demonstrates the before and after effects of fire as a destructive power. It creates a contrast between the landscape as it was and the landscape as it could be if struck by a forest fire.
To improve my images I used Photoshop. To begin I opened all of the NEF files for my best images and used the sliders to make adjustments to the images.
I then adjusted the angle of one image as it was slightly skewed.
I edited the other images using these same techniques.
Final Images:
A04: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions, and where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.
I feel that this shoot was successful in investigations natural destruction in both material possessions such as photographs but also the landscape. This relates to the theme of natural destruction as the singed edges of the photograph show how fire practically eats the image away. I also wanted to pair the burn image with the original landscape as the burning on the photograph symbolises the damage that could be inflicted on the trees at the hands of fire.
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