Fantasy Landscape 4- Snowy peaks

Hartington and Snowy Peaks.

I enjoyed going back to the peak district,this time with snow under foot. The landscape looked completly different with the snow and the light refecting. I decided to continue my theme of domineering animals in habitual landscapes and this time used a cow and of course a sheep being in the Peak district. I choose Hartington as it was a great little village and I loved the frozen pond.I have used photoshop to create the image below firstly opening the images then using the magnetic lasso, crop tools, blur tools and transform control holding down shift to keep items in proportion, I copied and pasted the images, Placing them into their positions. I did this with four different peices of images that are shown below in the Fantasy Landscape-Manipulated image. I am now used to this part of Photoshop now as I have familiarised myself with the options I have needed to create the images. I feel as though there are no legal or ethical considerations to be made as I have used my own images throughout my Manipulated image.

Hartington and the Pond.

The Sheep.

 1/200 Iso200 F5

The Cow

 1/200 Iso200 F8

The Phone Box.

 1/200 Iso 1600 F5

The Mill Stone.

 1/40 Iso1600 F8

 

 

Fantasy Landscape 2- Ducking Antics Melbourne Hall

Ducking antics at Melborne Hall

Continuing the theme of domineering animals in habitual landscapes I felt that here at Melborne Hall the Humans were the minority and the ducks were not affraid of anything!!

I have used photoshop to create the image below firstly opening the images then using the magnetic lasso, crop tools, blur tools and transform control holding down shift to keep items in proportion, I copied and pasted the images, Placing them into their positions. I did this with three different peices of images that are shown below in the Fantasy Landscape-Manipulated image. I am now used to this part of Photoshop now as I have familiarised myself with the options I have needed to create the images. I feel as though there are no legal or ethical considerations to be made as I have used my own images throughout my Manipulated image,

Landscape- Melbourne Halls Pond

 F5 Iso 400 1/30

The Duck

Ff 5 Iso 800 1/50

The Phone Box

F5 Iso 800 1/125

The Boat.

 F5 Iso 1600 1/500

Abstract-Raindrops.

Raindrops

I wanted to carry on with some abstract images and incorporate my theme of water.
I was sitting in the conservatory continuing with my blog when it started to rain really quite heavily and loved the patterns that it was making on the windows.
Ever played race the raindrop?
Below are some images I liked after grabbing the camera and taking some shots of the patterns I liked alough this was unplanned I did look at the colous that were reflecting in the shots and which shots I thought would look good in black and white. I thought some of these would look good in a series of pictures.

1/125 F5 Iso 800 Cropped and black and white edited.

1/125 F5 Iso 800 Cropped and edited black and white.

1/13 F5 Iso 800 Cropped.

1/13 F5 Iso 800 Cropped and Black and white edit.

1/160 F5 Iso 800 Black and white cropped edit.

Fantasy landscape- 3 Dominating London

Dominating London.

My Third Fantasy landscape-Manipulated image is continuing along the concept of Animals domineering the particular landscape where the photograph was captured.
This time the image was taken on a trip to London, I played with various options but decided that where better than Piccadilly circus and included the world famous taxi too. I have used photoshop to create the image using the magnetic lasso, crop tools, blur tools and transform control holding down shift to keep items in proportion. I did this with four different images that are shown below the Fantasy Landscape-Manipulated image. I am now used to this part of Photoshop now as I have familiarised myself with the options I have needed to create the images.I feel as though there are no legal or ethical considerations to be made as I have used my own images throughout my Manipulated image, however I am using the underground sign as wheel hubs and permission to use this logo may need to be sought.

I edited the image in Photo shop and used Magnetic lasso to outline the Pigeon's, big ben's clock face and Icirus. I then copied and pasted onto the Landscape picture used the rubber and blur tool to even out the edges.
This pigeon means business!

The Landscape-Picadilly Circus.

F5 Iso 800 1/200

The Pidgeons

 F5 1/250 Iso 800

Icirus

 F5 1/250 Iso 800

Big Ben's Clock Face.

 F5 1/200 Iso 400.

Research- Erik Johansson.

Erik Johansson,  is a professional photographer and retoucher from Sweden. He mostly works on personal- and commercial projects. For him  "photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in his mind". He gets inspired by things around him in daily life and all kinds of things he sees. Every new project is a new challenge and his goal is to realize them as realistic as possible."

Tools: Canon EOS 5d mark II, Canon L-lenses, Elinchrom RX-flashes, Homebuilt-PC, Eizo displays, Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Instead of shying away, as some photographers do, from revealing the intense levels of Photoshop work done on the images he produces, Johansson is proud of the technique he has developed and says it is "somehow different from other kinds of art".

Having taken photographs “all [his] life” he developed a specialist design technique that tricks the eye and the brain. His work is humorous and playful, but can also be quite hard-hitting and political.

The Independent caught up with Johansson by phone, as he was eating his lunch at the university canteen in Gothenburg, Sweden. Matilda Battersby May 2010.

Who or what inspires you?

I get my inspiration from artists rather than photographers. MC Escher, Dali and Rene Magritte and other old fashioned artists mainly.
Work at sea


 Square.

I really like the humour behind some of the images that Erik creates and the realisum in the unrealistic, I like the way that the images are there for individual interpretation and that any one looking at he images could make a comment that would not be protested.
I found it really hard to date his works.

Research- Susan Derges

Susan Derges.

Susan Derges was born in London in 1955. She studied painting at the Chelsea College of Art and Design from 1973-1976 and at the slade school of art from 1977-1979. She then turned to photography, exploring in particular early photographic techniques of cameraless photography - exposing images directly onto photographic paper - techniques she has continued to refine and develop to this day.

 For the 1997 River Taw series she worked at night, placing photographic paper on the river bed and allowing the images to be exposed through ambient light, aided by the use of a flash gun. Her technique involved a very direct and unmediated physical relationship with the landscape.
River Taw, 19 January, 1999, photograph, 76.2cm x 30.5cm by Susan Derges.
Much of her subsequent work has dealt with this relationship - of separation and connectiveness with the natural world. Her images are often beautiful, conjuring metaphysical and metaphorical layers of meaning. Her methods have been consistently experimental, a constant search for new cameraless methods of recording imagery, including the photogram, while directly connecting with the world she observes.she first experimented with cameraless photographywhile living in Japan.



Susan Derges, Full Moon Hawthorn.Under The Moon series involved working with photographs of the moon and combining these with water and branch patterns exposed to sound vibrations in the darkroom. Her images, though based upon the capturing of external natural realities, take on a metaphorical dimension that echo the inner life of the unconscious and imaginative.I think that her works are very beautiful and to be able to creat such pictures amazes me to the point where i really have to try it!! Her pictures also capture the beauty of our planet and she is influenced by the planet around her with natral lights and objects, susan is very creative in what she does and showing you only two of her pictures was very hard as there are many to choose from.I love the closeness of her pictures and the colours that are created.

Research-Giles Norman

Giles Norman.

Giles norman lives in kinsale, co.cork born in 1961 to Belgian and English parents, Giles has lived in kinsale since 1976.

While completing his formal schooling, a chance request to photograph a school project provided him with his first real opportunity to use a camera. this experience proved to be a very positive one and in 1979, he received his first camera for his 18th birthday. by 1981 he had begun creating his first portfolios.
Quickly developing his own distinctive style of black and white photography giles began to successfully sell his black and white photographs to craft shops around Ireland. to support this demand he rented darkroom space in kinsale, where a small window to the street drew a steady stream of visitors. This welcome intrusion convinced him to open his first black and white photography gallery.
By selling work from his earliest portfolios of kinsale, dublin, kerry and west cork, the gallery became successful and gained giles recognition as one of Ireland’s leading black and white photographers.
Going on to add to his collection he returned many times to the west of Ireland photographing the aran islands, clare and galway, while also visiting donegal in the north and wicklow in the east.
Giles made his first trip to paris in 1994, returning again in 1997. in the intervening years he visited venice and florence,this necessitated a move to a larger premises in 1992, which is now home to the complete black and white portfolios of Giles Norman.
while Giles spends much of his time in kinsale he also finds time to add to his portfolios, more recently launched collections include beara, new york and dingle.

Below  picture,
"From the furthermost tip of the beara peninsula to the edge of connemara and further to donegal, these images take us on a journey filled with enigmatic rural landscapes. the irish coast is beautifully captured in photographs that blend wild shores, dramatic clouds and the constant movement of the ocean."

Seagulls, coumeenole beach, dingle, co. kerry, ireland, 2010.

Crashing waves, coumeenole beach with blasket islands in the background, dingle, co. kerry, ireland, 2010.

The style of photoghraphs are documenary they are telling you about the place, his photos give a real feeling of the ruggedness of this coastline and how the sea is a force in it's self, going to Ireland every year as a child I can realate to these Pictures, you can see the whole series on his gallery website of which there are 22 pictures of the same coastline all of which portray the drama of the sea and the beauty of this exceptional coastline. The photographer is inspired by the very landscape where he lives and I cant think of anything better than to everyday see more and more of what is around you.The photos themselves inspire me to take photos of the sea something that I am yet to do.