Landscape Environment- Wynn Bullock

Urban Environment- Andreas Feininger

I've come across the artist Andreas Feininger who is mostly known for his urban environment photography. Feininger had said that the city had attracted him since his earliest days as a photographer. But in time this love grew to include all the aspects of the city and its buildings, its people, its cars and traffic jams, its confusion and even its ugliness. "I see the city as a living organism: dynamic, sometimes violent, and even brutal," he stated. I think the people in the city is something that really interests me as a photographer because those moments you capture of them people are luck or fate. It is being in the right place at the right time to walk past those specific people and capture those specific actions that are taking place.









I think aswell looking at Feininger's work a lot of it is being in the right place at the right time. I think there is something magical about being in the right place at the right time, if you manage to time the moment perfectly you could end up with an image that changes your career. Like this image above, Feininger taking the picture just as the man leans over the egde completes the image. I feel like the man being there makes the photo a lot more invitng and less rigid and cold, as the space at the top of the picture and the hard, rectangular, rigid edges of the balcony's give the photo a cold hard feeling. I need to think about whether I want maidstone to be portrayed as cold or hard or to make the photos more inviting.

Environment- Urban- Favourite shots

I took a lot of digital photos so I thought it would be useful for me to look through them and decide which ones worked best. These are the ones that I liked the best:

I liked this photo because I like the composition. I feel like the photo is easy on the eye and not awkward to  look at. However there is a shine a light reflecting off something which I don't like. I feel like it takes away the naturallness of the photo and reminds the viewer that it's a photo. Even though the viewer knows its a photo they are supposed to get lost and be taken in. To forget that what they are looking at is a photo. I feel like this photo gives off a laid-back, easy going, sunday afternoon in the country kind of feel. Even though this was taken in a city train station car park.

I again like the composition of this photo. I like how the tyre marks make 

Environment, Urban - Brief recap

I've decided to go back to the breif to make sure i actually am on the right track. Sometimes people start projects following the brief and then they get so caught up in their project and go off on a tangent. So I jsut want to go back to the brief and am still keeping in the guidlines.


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Environment, Urban - Artist Research

I've chosen to look at ... they have shown the city in this way!

Environment, Urban - City feeling

I still need to work out how I want to portray Maidstone. Im going to look back at my digital photos i've already taken and think about what feelings these photos give out to the viewer. Im also going to look at other artists and see how they have decided to portray the city.

Environment, Urban - Evaluation

I really enjoyed taking the urban photos and I was really pleased that members of the public let me and were willing for me to take photos of them. Some even asking if I wanted a picture and asking how they would like me to pose. You get a lot of looks of people in the street so im glad that this didn't put me off. I've taken a lot of photos so im going to go through and highlight the ones that I think are best and work the best.