Evaluation of Final Pieces

I am really happy with my final outcomes fro this project. I feel its my best from not only this project but all projects because usually I would find the obvious beauty in nature and I found my work was very similar to other peoples work, and I believe my final pieces show nature in a different way.

In my final pieces there are many formal elements shown more than others. Colour, is one of the elements which isn't visible. When editing my final piece I did add a slight blue tint to the black and white images because I had tried it out previously and I thought it worked well. Where I have moved the camera upwards there are lines from the change of light. This I think works well. Also because of the changes in light and the length I left the shutter open has created a range of tones. Going upwards the tones get lighter and then move into the lightest tone. The viewer still can see the details of the trees but there is a clear change in tone from where I have moved my camera up. When arranging my images I have thought about lines a lot because I wanted to have them perfectly arranged to contrast the content in the images.

For most of the shoots I used my D3200 Nikon camera with mainly the 8nd filter. I used mainly the 8 nd filter because I mainly went on shoots during the day and I needed to block out some of the light so I could open the shutter up.  Also for all shoots I used Photoshop for: cropping, enhancing features, arranging and a couple others. When editing my final pieces I made sure they were all cropped the same and all were made black and white. The image to the right are the settings I adjusted to make the images slightly blue and I used the same settings for all the images. I found after the first couple of shoots I had worked out what worked and what didn't.

The main thing I wanted to achieve was to get away from the typical nature photos and go more abstract. Also looking at my final pieces they also fit in the category fine art because I believe my work challenges the aesthetics of nature.
Also all the places I shot are places I've been going to since I was little and I waned to view them in a way I haven't before. My final pieces have a dreamy aspect to them and this links to the memories I have of when I was a child.

I am really happy with my final outcome because I believe they are best work from this project. I really with that they work as a series and that there all of treetops of the places I grow up with. I really like that the images are in black and white but with a tint of blue, i feel this works well in a series and doesn't distract from the content of the images.

If I could do my final shoot again I think I would have shot more treetops so I could of had maybe 20 images and displayed them as A4 rather then A3. Overall I am really happy with my final major project.

I did a continuous evaluation for each shoot.