Preconceptions.
Why have I chosen to do this course? Initially my main reason is to improve my photography.
I am asked to express my preconceptions about landscape. Above is a photo taken in 2011 in Glen Orchy demonstrating my preconceptions. Below are my jottings done ad hoc to allow free thought to flow.
To clarify: The picture would be in horizontal format, showing our countryside mainly without people or if present only small in the frame but animals are part of the landscape. The mood of the picture would be mainly pastoral and calm with occasional drama added by stormy lighting. Mainly these would be something to hang on the wall as an extra window to the outside world.
- I have no clear idea of what kind of imagery landscape should be, but it should involve colour, play of light, weather through the year. Perhaps this is chocolate box, or calendar photography.
- I want to be out and about in the countryside
- I want to challenge myself with the next level, having completed Level 1.
- Other thoughts include connecting the landscape with its history - and that it is not always beautiful.People harness and harvest it to good or ill visual effect. To record how every moment immediately becomes history and sometimes that moment will never come again. For example a small tree in one year will be a different shape and height the next. There is a progression of the landscape.
I am asked to express my preconceptions about landscape. Above is a photo taken in 2011 in Glen Orchy demonstrating my preconceptions. Below are my jottings done ad hoc to allow free thought to flow.
To clarify: The picture would be in horizontal format, showing our countryside mainly without people or if present only small in the frame but animals are part of the landscape. The mood of the picture would be mainly pastoral and calm with occasional drama added by stormy lighting. Mainly these would be something to hang on the wall as an extra window to the outside world.