Colours and words revisited..

Architecture and stone/grey

Linear and stone/grey

Texture and stone/grey

These images are influenced by my colour swatch.

I kept in the first one as it is the colour spot on and I feel represents it well.

Tone

I'm keeping this for tone because I personally love the colours and composition :)

Water

Repetition

 I'm keeping this as repetition because it's interesting and abstract.

Shade

Light

I feel that these images have more point in them than the last attempt because they're more natural and not set up.

My final spring image(s)

Here are 2 images that I recently took and edited, I was going for a none obvious attempt, without flowers. I felt these subject represented spring quite well. The first looks like a dried version of a dandelion and the second looks like a bud of a flower, like growth. I'm not sure which image to choose as a final but these are contender .

Spring Attempt 2

This didn't go as hoped, I wanted to find a flower to pick but the flower (below) wasn't easy to pick without using scissors, least I managed some photos of it though!

Most turned out focused in the wrong places..

Some turned out blurry like this one..

My idea behind this one was to represent the transition between winter and spring, but the plant itself should represent more of spring. Unfortunately I feel that this wasn't a good representation. 

 I combined the ice photo with the blurred flowers image to create this, along with more editing over top. This got too many confused reactions in terms of the representation because many thought it was winter because of the pinks and the ice.

I will have to make the theme more obvious and remove the ice.

New thoughts..

Having spoken with a lecturer about my idea, it seems that my idea is too outside the set brief. I have decided that I will try my idea anyway, but try various things such as take the picture of the flower before it's picked, lay it down on grass etc and experiment with more layering and textures along with it.

My mock up..

Using the influntial images from Susan Derges and a couple of the words from my little list, I decided to play around with some images. I used ice cubes as a texture because it's more of a representation of time from Winter to Spring. I used an old image of a flower and overlayed it on top using Photoshop. Of course I know I could do better with this. Though the more I look at it, the more I'm a bit drawn to it weirdly enough.

I may use this type of colouring in my final image. I am looking to pick a flower and put it in some water, freeze it, then melt half of it so that the flower stick out the melted side - both representing the change of Winter to Spring but in a less obvious way. I hope that it's not too Wintery though!

The thing that sparked my idea..

No this isn't the original image I found a while before this project, no I cannot find where I'd seen it and yes this particular subject is more suitable for Autumn/Winter!

(Source: Google but apparently somewhere on Blogger!)

However! I feel that ice just represents more of a transition than a season, it gives off a really nice textured effect just like in Susan Derges's photos. Using a flower in a similar way I feel that I could achieve this for Spring.

Susan Derges

We were recommended some photographers that may influence us for this Seasons project. Susan Derges being one of them, her work stood out more to me on the list of references because she is experimental. She uses paper and exposes it underneath water, well to gain these ones she did anyway. I like the textures and tones it's brought out in these images.

I also am a fan of her darkness and colours, though they do not quite fit my theme of Spring, they certainly are nice to look at.


(Source: Google and http://www.susanderges.com/)