The photographs below are my favourite images from this shoot which hoped to capture waste as a landscape. Because I didn't have a tripod for this shoot I had to shoot my images on f/16 again, so even though the aperture is quite high it isn't as high as I would've liked seen as my results on f/22 worked so well.
While looking for a composition that would create a waste landscape photograph I found this position, the photographs above and below show my favourite first attempts at capturing this scene. I tried a few different positions because I only wanted to see waste in my image not else, but I feel like I pulled this off pretty well. I prefer the image below because you get a sense of a rolling landscape due to being able to see three different mounds of waste, also you get a good fore and background.
This image did work, but not to as great affect as the previous two images because the background isn't as far away so you don't see as greater scale as you do in the first two images.
From this first composition this is my favourite image, and I think my best image so far in the project. The scale of the image is really large which gives the viewer a very good idea of the scale of the waste problem that we have in the country, especially when this photograph was taken from in the centre of Coventry. What I like about this image is that you cant see the foreground either which means that the viewer can't place them self in the photograph, and thus giving the photograph an even bigger impact. This image is exactly what I wanted to create for a potential final piece, and I think will work really well to make them think about where there waste goes due to them being able to see household items in the image such as radiators and fridge freezers.
I think this image works well as another landscape image but not as well as the previous composition. I think the reason it doesn't work as well is that you don't get the rolling hill affect like you could see in the first set of compositions. What this image does work well on though is showing the viewer the scale of the waste upwards because they can compare it to the size of the van. I also really like the smashed glass on the concrete in the foreground, because it adds another interesting pattern to view.
Again this shows practically the same composition as above but now in a landscape format, as you can see the mountain of waste is about the height of three/ four vans which the viewer can appreciate. Also I think the brightness of the red van kind of distracts the viewer from the scale of the waste, you definitely don't see the same kind on large scale waste as you do in the first compositions.
Unlike the first two sets of compositions these ones look a lot stranger because the viewer can't really see anything they can relate to, making these look like strange alien planet landscapes. I love the different tones and patterns in these images, and think they create a good tonal range.
I think I prefer this image to the one above because firstly it gives the viewer a sense of scale, and secondly because one can see the ground it means the viewer can place themselves in the image, which makes them appreciate the scale much more. Also in this image one can see the car wheels, which hopefully the viewer will see so they recognise something, which will connect them with the waste.
I like the composition of this image because its split up into three different base colours, which are in the fore, middle and background. this gives the photograph a nice order to it. But still has an element of randomness which can be viewed in the waste.
These two images above and below are quite different to the ones I have previously discussed, but still use the same affects seen in Jordan's waste landscapes. These huge piles of scrap metal look like they are out of the transformers movie or something. And I think due to their scale, colour and pattern look really impressive to view. Again even though you can tell these are really big, one doesn't get the same landscape feeling as seen in the first composition.
This image has a really strange composition to it but I think it works really well. It has quite a cluttered feel to it, but this isn't bad seen as the whole project is on waste which is usually cluttered. Also there is lots of different tones and colours in it which makes it look really good. And lastly there is quite a large depth of field, and the image falls back very far which gives the viewer the sense of scale and gives the image more of a landscape look.
Overall, I think my images connect and show the techniques of Jordan and the other landscape photographers I have discussed really well. Some of the images work better than others, usually with the image not having such a great depth of field/ the background not being far enough away which doesn't give the image enough of a large scale effect.
Furthermore, the problem with doing these unnatural landscapes, is its all well and good making them look incredibly alien and strange to the viewer but if they don't see anything they recognise, they will disconnect themselves with being partly responsible for creating it and thus not get the full affect of what I'm trying to achieve through this project. So hopefully for my next shoot when I revisit this scrapyard I will have a tripod with me, because it worked so well for me the last shoot I did using it, and also I will focus on trying to create the large scale landscape images that I have been looking for, but ones that show viewers objects they recognise so they will connect themselves to the waste. Meaning they begin to start taking some responsibility for creating it.