Landscape Evaluation.

So after many ups and downs throughout this project, I have finally brought it to an end. I'm fairly happy with my prints but I like to think that there's always room for improvement. My big mistake, leaving my finished prints in the cleaning bath and leaving them for Two days was pretty monumental but it gave me the opportunity to look back at what I'd done so far. Until this point I had cropped all of my images to a nondescript ratio. In a tutorial session with one of my tutors, we spoke about crop ratio and how my previous photographs didn't show the format of Camera I was taking my pictures on. With this in mind a creative choice was made to crop all of my photographs to 10x8.

My Learning Outcomes were to:

'Describe, explain and use key elements of knowledge and key concepts of landscape photography.'

I did this by researching Landscape photographers and how they stretch the boundaries of Landscape Photography.

'Recognise the changing nature of knowledge and concepts related to landscape photography in order to analyse the quality of your own work''

I have addressed this by making the choice of my crop size of my images. Although not a widely used size anymore, due to the progressive take over by digital photography. Myself and I'm sure other critiques would be able to realise the equipment used and also the creative choice.

'Apply a range of practical and technical skills to the production of landscape photographs.'

I have satisfied this learning outcome by using filters to manipulate the tonal range of my photographs and in the process of doing so, I have also used 'Split Grade Printing' which is a new tool I have picked up throughout my research and my trials and errors.

'Take responsibility for organising and managing the production of your work in the context of the set assignment brief.'

I suppose this being the easier of the learning outcomes because it would not be possible to have created my twelve exposed negatives and the final Five prints. I believe this is also covered by the photographs being individually labeled, in selves and in a labeled presentation box.

Would I have done anything different given the same project again? Absolutely. Not because I feel I have failed in any way for this assignment but I would like to look at another style of landscape photography. It's not one of my favourite genres but by no means does that mean I dislike it in anyway. Given more time and a free reign of where I could take the pictures I would like to venture into a city and explore the possibilities it holds.

I have taken a lot from this assignment, not only my new found darkroom techniques but also the way the Field Camera has slowed me down to take my shot. I am even considering starting to use my DSLR upside down to create a similar effect on my concentration.