Discussion

For my unit 4 topic I have decided to do the exam question of 'Aspects of the Landscape'. Despite having chosen to do this exam question specifically I will incorporate some of the other questions, Viewpoint and Composition and Multiple Images. I will incorporate viewpoint and composition by considering my viewpoint when I am and taking pictures for the aspects of the landscape, for example, when I go into London to shoot, I will do a shoot focusing on the height which the city goes to, focusing on the height of the buildings, by taking an image from a low angle, depth is created, making to seem very tall. I will use multiple imagery to show various different aspects of the landscape in one image, to show the many different aspects one landscape can hold. I will also use multiple imagery to emphasise that certain aspect in one landscape, showing it a various amount of time.

I have chosen to do the Aspects of the Landscape exam question because it is predominantly outside and throughout the entire journey of my photography work, i haven't been outside much so i thought it would be nice to end it by focusing on mainly outside surroundings. I have also chosen to do Aspects of the Landscape because it avoids me having to rely on models , i have found within past projects that models are very hard to find and when you find them, they may be unreliable, because of this the majority of shoots in the past I have used the same model or just myself, which becomes repetitive. Areas of the Landscape is a very broad question which means I am able to go wherever I would like with the question, I can focus on any aspect which I would like, it can range from the scale of a landscape to an emotion which the landscape promotes.

I have various different locations in mind for landscapes and different aspects which I would like to focus on within them, the only issue is getting them to link. The majority of my ideas have come from looking at the photographers which are mentioned in the exam paper, Fay Goldwin, Kate Mellor and James Ravillous. Between them they seem to focus on the landscape of the countryside/coast which was very helpful because despite that they were all shooting the same kind of thing, I was able to look at the different aspects they notice within each image.

Locations and Aspects I have thought of so far goes as follows:

• London - Focus on aspects such as the tall buildings, the movement within the city, the large scale city scape
• Tunisia - (due to the fact during a half term I will be visiting there) Focus on  aspects such as the colours within a tunisian market landscape, the underdevelopment of a landscape by looking at the construction which is just left around and the dusty roads
• Colosseum- Focus on the aspect of decay and oldness
• Littered area- Focus on the aspect of how this can decay an area and pollute it 
• Cemetery- Focus on the aspect of decay again with the tarnished tomb stones, and the fact that people are decaying beneath the earth