I would say this is my best landscape photograph because the white line draws the audiences attention to the horizon line of the photo where the colour changes. As well as this the fence on the right hand side and the lamppost make the landscape more interesting and pleasing to look at as it adds contrasts to the landscape them as they're portrait objects.
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This is probably my favourite 'wrong landscape' as it is only slightly altered making it that much more 'wrong'. I took this photo with a bin boardering the orginal landscape, and I like the the way the boarder doesn't follow a set shape and cuts of the orginal landscape breaking the conventional rules of a tradional landscape such as a set horizon line. It also plays around with focus meaning a viewer wouldnt see this as a successful landscape as the actual landscape is unable to be seen clearly as well giving the landscape a sense of movement making it more exciting and unconventional. If I were to take this again I would probably mess around the light of the picture to see if it would effect it in any way.
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sIn the photos Brea Souders has explored the idea of glitching through her use shadows and technical accidents. To me, this makes the pictures more visually pleasing and aesthetic. The dark shadows create a subject for the images through the shapes they're creating and the background they're portrayed on. I think Brea Souders may have used these silhouette structures to reference American West postcards from the early twentieth century. The artificial shadows are also used to romanticize the interactions we have within the natural world.
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In response to my research of Dafna Talmor I created my own constructed landscapes slide. Through the process of making these I used a scalpel and cutting mat to cut multiple shapes out of coloured cellophane and scraps of old transparencie slides. Next I used clear tape to stick my shapes onto a 35mm transparency slide that was bought on eBay. Following this, my next step in creating my own constructed landscape slide was to use blue coloured thread and create an abstract pattern unique to usual landscapes seen. Finally, I used a holepunch to reveal a hole in the image leaving it up to the audience to question and interpret the pictures in their own way resulting in them being more exciting to look at then regular landscape photos. We then used a slide projector to project these images onto a larger backdrop where we used our phones to rephotograph them. However, during the making of this project I found finding an old landscape pictures to be very difficult as I wanted pictures that were interenting enough to be focus background points of my project but plain enough to develop using my materials. The materials also had a limit, for example if to many materials were used the transparency slide would be too thick to fit into the projector. This fustrated me as I orginally used too many materials therefore I had to simplify my end product for the slide projector. As I saw my new slides projected I was pleased at the major effect the coloured thread had on the slides as it adds bold lines throughout the pictures obstructing the view of the orginal images. The tape also surprised me as it adds an interesting outline pattern to the picture that I wasnt expecting to see, especially in the first picture on the left.
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One way I wanted to incorporate landscapes into my personal day to day life was to photograph my journey to school. However, I decided to do this via google maps due to it being inspired by my earlier Constructed Landscapes research on Brea Souders and her digital glitch landscapes. I have decided to use these images in my final project by putting them over cut outs of my friend's side profiles, to create brand new 'personal' landscapes. Here is what I made:
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