I found this project harder to approach than the others. 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.
As I was shooting a few accident happened, the first was that I forgot to rewind the film and ended up double exposing. As I printed I the contact print I realised that the double exposed picture was far better than the others so I decided to reshoot with double exposures only. The second accident was the back of the camera kept opening during my reshoot, this lead me to loose a lot of pictures, however one picture came back half exposed and as I was printing it it came out really good, it is probably the best of the series.
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This project was definantly challenging for me, the number of times I had to reshoot made me wonder if I just shouldn't change ideas during the entire time. But i'm glad i didn't,I am happy with the outcome and realised I enjoyed it more than other projects as it was more challenging but also ore rewarding.
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