Evaluation

Evaluation

I chose to take the Borderfield oils project, to make my images unique and stand out I chose to edit my images in the style of the ‘Pop Art’ movement and take inspiration from artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. For my shoots, I intended to visit a variety of rapeseed fields with varying terrain and try and creatively implement the oils into the images. However, this didn’t go to plan as I only did two shoots, the first shoot I feel went fairly well as a starting point so I could expand upon it in later shoots which I had planned, but with my second shoot due to weather issues the images felt flat and uninteresting, I then planned to retake the images but again weather issues arose so this plan fell through as well.

For research, I looked at some adverts which have a pop art style to them, by looking at them it gave me ideas on how I could implement pop art techniques and styles.  

For experimenting I looked at recreating some of Andy Warhol’s famous pieces such as Marilyn and Campbell’s soup can, I also looked at using colour halftones and other Photoshop filters such as ‘find edges’ and other techniques such as compositing.

For my final pieces, I tried to make each image feel unique and give it a different style such as solely using colour half-tones on one and using compositing to create the illusion that the bottles of oil resemble skyscrapers on another image. I wanted each image to look unique to make each image stand on its own as well as catch people attention. A limiting factor for creating my final images was the number of images that I had taken was slim so I had to work around the small selection, one of my ideas which had to be scrapped was having food being prepared but instead of a wall it was a rapeseed field but due to none of the images I had matched the perspective of the kitchen images I had. But the final images I have fit my criteria of being unique but with the last two images I created I was running out of ideas and didn’t want to over use half-tones so I used the ‘Crystallise’ filter instead, my last image I had very little ideas so I was just experimenting with stuff until I decided to try adding the text from the ’Gold’ bottle down the lane, this image is the one that I am least pleased with.

In conclusion, I feel that the project could have gone better but due to the weather it was hard to arrange shoots as the locations I wanted to go to I needed transportation, which limited the times I could go and shoot. The final pieces I create while I’m not entirely happy with they do serve the purpose that I wanted each be unique and stand on their own.

If I were able to do this project again I would try harder to get more shoots done as well as spend more time on my final pieces to make them better. I would also schedule my time better as this project clashed with other projects I had to work on.