UNIT 57: PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTISE

PROJECT PROPOSAL(P2, P3, M2, M3)

Candidate name: Cesca Haig

We will be going to Salford Quays on

November 19th to take pictures of the

urban landscape around the area. I will

be producing about 35-40 pictures of

the buildings and sights around Salford

Quays, from these I will pick my final 10

images.

REASONS FOR SELECTION OF THEME (INCLUDING INSPIRATION FROM THE

WORK OF OTHERS)I am taking these images because I want to capture all the

different textures of the urban landscape, for example the water

and reflections from the buildings around in it. Also the all the

interesting buildings around Salford Quays, because they’re not

all the typical straight up, straight down build.

My theme will be black and white photography as I think that

captures the eye of the viewer, as it makes them pay more

attention to the details of the things in the image.

Two photographers whose work I have been inspired by are Ansel Adams and Eugène Atget, they both worked with black and white photography and both were landscape photographers. Although Ansel Adams worked a lot with rural landscape I can still use his work as inspiration with the way he uses water in his images to show the reflection of the things he is photographing. Eugene Atget has also worked in this way, but he used more buildings and was a more urban landscape photographer. His work is based around the streets of Paris, he didn’t use many techniques but instead used the textures of the things he was photographing, which is what I am hoping to do with my work.

A third photographer I am using as inspiration is Iain Hutchinson, he is more modern urban landscape photographer although he still works in black and white. I have put a few examples of his work here to show the way he uses different techniques, as with the other two photographers I have used he has used the reflection from the water in his one of his images.

In my work I will use different techniques, such as depth of field, rule of thirds

and Macro.

I want to use depth of field in my photography because I like the way that it

makes the viewer have to focus more on the photo to try and see what is out

of focus either in the background or at the foreground.

I think that using rule of thirds will make my compositions more interesting, I

will make my view lines more off center and consider skylines in my

photography to make my images more dramatic.

As I have decided that I want to use the textures of the buildings and surfaces

around Salford Quays I will use macro photography to capture close ups of

different surfaces, as this will enable me to show the smaller details better.

We will be visiting Salford Quays

on the November 19th 9.30-12.30

Salford Quays is Greater

Manchester’s unique waterfront

destination.

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