In no particular order, these were the comments made about my current work:
- Too aesthetically pleasing "They look too pretty"
- The background is too out-of-focus
- There needs to be far away shots compared next to close-up shots for context
- The older initial images convey the project's message clearer as they were more "mundane"
- The older images feel exhausted/tired and that's exactly what you want
- Exhausted imagery and photos that portray a landscape not producing joyous life
- Older ones introduce the power stations existence, newer ones show sheer monolithic scale
- Consider using a strip format of images (displayed next to each other horizontally)
- Shoot macro again with overcast sky, not sunny
- Research other's visual strategy so you can create and present your own visual strategy
- Concentrate on the presentation of each image
- Reflect upon the idea of brown earth; flat, lifeless landscapes
- Research Chernobyl landscape images
- Same lighting throughout all the images
- "Break" with Burtinsky's concepts of showing the landscape
In summary, I need to:
- Make it look dull, flat, lifeless, a landscape not producing joyous life
- Shoot all in the same lighting conditions
- Shoot again, with macro, on an overcast day and increase aperture to reveal more background
- Shoot far away AND close-up
- Find a way to shoot each image that gives the whole project a visual strategy
- Use a "strip format" of images (displayed next to each other horizontally)
- Research Chernobyl and "break" with Burtinsky-style landscapes (?)
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