For this project I have always had a clear idea of what I wanted to do. Last Month, I visited family In both Ballina and Enniscrone, Ireland. Here is were I decided to shoot for my project. Enniscrone is a small sea-side village which is well known for its seaweed baths available at the bath house. The coast line has been effected by shore erosion, making the old sea bath house, sea steps and cabins unable to be used. I wanted to focus my project on the old bath house and the surrounding area, which both have been affected by erosion.
I wanted also to make a connection with a previous project I did about a seaside village affected by erosion. However, the projects will be different as the previous project was shot at night, in the style of Andreas Gursky. This project is to be shot in the afternoon, and has been inspired by Paul Graham's project Troubled land, which featured images of Northern Ireland, with 'hidden' messages. For example, One image of a countryside landscape at first glance seemed indifferent from other landscape images, until you noticed the small Union Jack flag hidden in a tree.
To create the images, I will use natural light, and will adjust the exposure and ISO number to collaborate with the weather and conditions of the shooting day. I will be using a canon EOS 1000D camera with a 18-35mm lens. I will shoot all the images in landscape form with variations of close-up and wide-angles.
In my work, they is a recurrent theme of lack of editing. I choose to do this as I believe an image should be created whilst being shot, and should not be recreated using an editing software. However, during this project I propose to incorporate some editing into my images. This will be in the form of colour change; to make all the images similar colours and sharpness. I will also work with levels and curves on photo shop to create shadows within the images.
The images I am going to shoot will not involve any people, and instead will focus mainly on the beach and surrounding buildings. This is a decision which has been made to connote the emptiness of the town. Also it is to the the lack of use of the buildings etc being shot, and will use pathetic fallacy to show the buildings emotions, through colour and lack of people.
Through the images, I would like to show how the sea, while being beautiful, It can also have some devestating effects towards the land. The images I am going to shoot will have a focus point which will be the bath house. This bath house was first built in 1912, but became unable to be used due to dangerous tides. Other areas unable to be used are the sea steps and cabins on the beach. Also this is the focus point for my project, I want to particularly focus on the bath house.
I wanted also to make a connection with a previous project I did about a seaside village affected by erosion. However, the projects will be different as the previous project was shot at night, in the style of Andreas Gursky. This project is to be shot in the afternoon, and has been inspired by Paul Graham's project Troubled land, which featured images of Northern Ireland, with 'hidden' messages. For example, One image of a countryside landscape at first glance seemed indifferent from other landscape images, until you noticed the small Union Jack flag hidden in a tree.
To create the images, I will use natural light, and will adjust the exposure and ISO number to collaborate with the weather and conditions of the shooting day. I will be using a canon EOS 1000D camera with a 18-35mm lens. I will shoot all the images in landscape form with variations of close-up and wide-angles.
In my work, they is a recurrent theme of lack of editing. I choose to do this as I believe an image should be created whilst being shot, and should not be recreated using an editing software. However, during this project I propose to incorporate some editing into my images. This will be in the form of colour change; to make all the images similar colours and sharpness. I will also work with levels and curves on photo shop to create shadows within the images.
The images I am going to shoot will not involve any people, and instead will focus mainly on the beach and surrounding buildings. This is a decision which has been made to connote the emptiness of the town. Also it is to the the lack of use of the buildings etc being shot, and will use pathetic fallacy to show the buildings emotions, through colour and lack of people.
Through the images, I would like to show how the sea, while being beautiful, It can also have some devestating effects towards the land. The images I am going to shoot will have a focus point which will be the bath house. This bath house was first built in 1912, but became unable to be used due to dangerous tides. Other areas unable to be used are the sea steps and cabins on the beach. Also this is the focus point for my project, I want to particularly focus on the bath house.
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