Light Project - Final Images, Winter Landscape

 The narrative behind this series is a journey up a snowy mountain, beginning from a high aerial shot down to the tire tracks in the snow (I thought this was a nice ending as it really enforced the idea of a journey). I think it was important to leave the images as black and white as it maintained that rich contrast that my photos had at the beginning of my explorations. The exposure was adjusted depending on how light or dark I wanted parts of the image to be. Shadows were cast in the first images to give a sense of clouds above but in the rest of the images the shadows are merely cast by the flour itself. Some of the images were altered slightly and some were flipped, based on the technique of Alfred Steiglitz, in order to give a different appearance of space. In the 4th image a surface of jelly was used to give a slight reflective quality like ice. 

Overall I am quite happy with how this series turned out, my favourite image is the second in the series, that to me truly looks like a mountain landscape and I am happy with the way the camera was positioned as though you were looking up at the mountain. I also love the third in the series which is another image which appears to be a realistic representation of a glazier due to its colouring.

In terms of my idea, I was a bit concerned as i thought it went off on a different tangent to what I originally explored, but it was through my development, and my explorations of light and shadow that led to me to creating these images, as well as through reading about the Equivalence series. I believe that I have learnt a lot about my camera through this project and how light can truly effect an image. I also found out how to adjust the exposure, and what that can do to enhance or take away from an image. A highly exposed image seemed relevant through my initial stages in the project but i see that it is something which needs to be adjusted constantly in order to get the best out of your scene. I also learned how to manual focus which I was really happy about as it is something I was always unsure of how to do and is a useful skill as auto focus sometimes just does not want to focus on the right thing.