Cultural Imaginaries and Landscape Photography
- Cultural imaginary - meaning and process of exchanging meanings in society.
- Landscape photography - representation of natural scenery. Three main styles:
- Abstract - No real area of focus or definition, difficult to decipher original photo
- Impressionistic - Gives an impression of a landscape as opposed to a true representation of one
- Representational - Most realistic, lacks artificial elements, relies on framing and lighting heavily
- Esteban Pastorino Dias:
- aerial perspectives
- builds own pinhole cameras
- creates model landscapes to photograph
- horror theme
- Lauren Marsolier:
- combines nature with buildings
- creates a new landscape
- Mishka Henner:
- images are more readily available so have less meaning as a result
- screenshots from Google Earth - 'stitches' them together
- Dissonance - lack of agreement or harmony between people or things.
- Ansel Adams - landscape photography.
- Black and white photographs - focus on textures.
Flash Photography Task
I went around the building twice capturing photographs using a flash gun. I tried to created 3D lighting by using the walls to bounce light off as well as ceiling lighting. Some of the photographs made the subject look flat - the flash was pointing directly at them, but some photographs turned out well, if a little dark, which could be fixed during the editing process.
Below is a contact sheet of the photographs I took with my favourite ones below that:
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