Hellebrand's Work:
Nancy Hellebrand's work focuses on the details and curvature of writing. The contrast between the black ink and white paper leaves a lot of negative space. As I have studied Hellebrand's exploration into handwritten writing I wanted to develop the idea. Because of this, I intend to create images featuring digital writing to explore further writing photography.
Waite's Work:
As previously studied, Charlie Waite explored landscapes, specifically naturalistic landscapes. I was inspired by his images and wanted to combine them with writing photography. After looking into combining naturalistic landscapes with handwriting I decided to take a digital approach. The business of his works allows the simplicity of the writing to blend in with the landscape, creating an interesting frame.
Image Bank: Ideas
I intend to create images that reflect the above style, with writing being combined with a naturalistic landscape. This idea inspires me as it is not a common theme in photography, so there is an element of originality. As I have previously explored this theme, I will try using digital text and black and white photos, giving a slightly more moody feel to the final image. I will use a cursive type of text as it reflects the same feel as trees/leaves/plants more than a block text would.
Contact Sheet:
Best Images:
Whilst this picture as a whole is not aesthetically pleasing, I intend to crop my images into the exact frame desired. I want to do this as in my previous investigation I used relatively zoomed out images, and so I want to experiment with some variation. The leaves in the back of this image hold a lot of detail and will be useful for cropping and editing.
This image is too far away in its current state, however once it has been cropped it holds great potential to show the different textures on the trees, as well as the depth of green shades which will look rich when converted to black and white.
This photo is much closer than the others and so will not need much cropping. The detail in the leaves will be more defined once the picture is edited and I think that once the writing is layered on top the picture will be interesting.
Images that didn't turn out well:
This picture doesn't have a specific point that would be good to zoom in to in order to get detail. The colours in this picture also wouldn't be defined once turned into black and white. This image isn't relevant to Charlie Waite's style and wouldn't fit the theme of my edits.
This photo is not naturalistic enough. The features of streets, lights and people take away the natural elements. As well as this, the lighting on the trees is way too harsh and makes this image impossible to use. The lack of colour variation would make this photo non-dimentional once editied into black and white.
This photo is too dark to be edited. The exposure on my camera was not correct for this shot. As well as this, the photo is out of focus, making it hard to pinpoint a specific place to crop. The lack of colour variation makes this picture too moody to progress.
Edit Progression:
To begin, I cropped my chosen image to where I thought had the most detail and would work best with layered writing. In this case, the detail of the base of the left tree had to be in the frame, as well as a good amount of the detailed leaves behind.
Once I had my cropped image, I converted it into black and white. I did this to experiment, as in my last shoot I left my pictures in colour. Changing the picture to black and white captured a lot of depth in the photo and made the writing that was layered on top less readable, making the image more interesting.
Once the base image was fully edited, I typed out some song lyrics and poems on Photoshop and changed them into a cursive font to fit the naturalistic theme. I simply layered them and adjusted the size before choosing the "Darken" effect.
Final Edits:
Final Analysis:
In conclusion, these images turned out to be successful edits which relate to the theme of writing whilst showing inspiration from both Charlie Waite and Nancy Hellebrand. In comparison to the previous shoot, I prefer the first edits with the coloured background images and the handwritten writing, as it has a more uplifting mood than the moody feeling these images radiate. The detail in these images however is better than in the colour ones as the contrast is higher. If I were to revisit this shoot and take more pictures, I would take an approach of taking closer up images rather than cropping more zoomed out images. To continue my exploration of writing photography, I could experiment with portraiture combined with writing styles.
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