I found this project harder to approach than the object. I didn't have an idea for some time, until I realised that every morning I wake up to a river covered in large container boats and industries covering it. It didn't bother me at first but it made me think about industrialism on the river. I looked at Peter Kennard's work and although I found it interesting it was too strong for me. I then tried to look at a more traditional approach of landscape portraiture and research Friedrich Caspar, I liked his method of portraying landscape so vastly, but it was still too different to my idea. So I took some test shots and worked from there. I wanted the industries and other human pollution to be noticed but for it to be too obvious. I used the Bronica SQ-B and only shot with aperture F8 or F11. I also decided to Take the pictures in black and white as I thought it made more of an impact than it would have done in colour.
For my pastiche I decided to use Robert Adam's work, it was the one which I thought I could reproduce best. After a lot of exploring I found a location which resembled Robert Adam's picture, two trees with Oxford city in the background.I used A Bronica SQ-B for my pastiche and took all my shots between F16 and F8, taking most of them at F8 or F11. Adam's pictures look quite foggy and gave me an impression of morning, so I decided to take my pastiche during early morning. The negatives came out very dark, but I was able to work around that by testing many different grade settings, aperture stops and different times of exposure. In the end I made a 7s long exposure, with the aperture at F8 and grade 5.
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