PLAN

As I never really practise doing landscape photography, I wanted to go out and try to produce some images, to get an idea of what to except for further shoots. I plan to take inspiration from the photographers I research, and looking for formal elements – such as shapes, textures, lines, colour etc.

LOCATION

The location I’m planning to go to is Pegwell Nature Reserve & Hoverport. It’s rural and has a lot of life. You can get to a different height within the walk, allowing me to have a high and low point of view. The hoverport part of the reserve was close in September 1982, so most of the area has been taken over by nature and the natural environment. This is like the war structures in Marc Wilsons work.

EQUIPMENT

I will be using a Canon camera, along with bringing two lenses. One is the standard Canon lens and the other being the 70 – 300mm lens. I’m bringing the 70 – 300mm because some parts of the nature reserve are fenced off and I could use this zoom lens to get closer through the camera. I’m also bringing a tripod just in case I want stability/extra support.

CONTACT SHEET

SCREENSHOTS OF EDITING

I DID THE SAME EDITING TECHNIQUE FOR ALL OF THE OTHER IMAGES, BUT SOME ADJUSTMENT ARE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN OTHERS. ALSO IN SOME I TURN INTO BLACK & WHITE AFTER I DID THIS EDITING

RESULTS

Overall the experimental shoot went well, though not all of these photos are landscapes, they are involved with the environment around them. While shooting, I was looking out for texture, reflection in the water, simplistic objects, and shape etc. On the day of the shoot, I went in the late afternoon, so the lighting would be softer and dimmer. And this works out nicely with some of the images.

It was only after editing this image and went back over my research, I coincidentally noticed that it was a bit similar to Carl De Keyzer image ‘Sandycove, Ireland’.

The painted lines were some of the remains of the hoverport, which looks like that in De Keyzer image that that road was the remnant of something.

This is one of my favourite images from this shoot, the fact I got this image was by luck. I was on my way back to the car, finishing with the first shoot, and noticed this. The sky was clear, and the smoke got more prominent but also going away fast as well. So I quickly got this shot, not thinking that it was a big deal of an image. But while editing it, I began to see a story and character within it, and the use of negative space in the sky, I feel really works, drawing your eye to the smoke.

Some of the photos I took obviously didn’t work out, for example on my contact sheet it shows some images of a bridge/drain thing, with metal bars around it. I wasn’t sure if it was part of the hoverport or draining, but it was abandoned and had decayed over the years. But at the end of shooting at different angles and heights, it didn’t work out.