Major Project TERM II - SMART objective

 SMART objective - Expressionism

For this photography project, I will be exploring and depicting different aspects of human life. This project will show the people's mortality, and will delve into different aspects of it through a series of six black and white photographs. Each photo will be created using different photography techniques, either in-camera, or a digital one.  During this process I will be further developing my black and white photography skills, long shutter photography, multiple exposure photography, as well as I will continue to advance my compositing in photoshop techniques.

The above mentioned six photographs will show aspects of life, that makes us human, like ageing (multiple exposure portrait), memories (picture in picture compositing), dreaming (compositing) or visualizing a rush of thoughts (long exposure portrait).

The entire process, ranging from research, through production to post production will take me around six weeks, and will be presented in a form of gallery on my website.

Below you can see a quick test photo of 'rush of thoughts' long exposure portrait. 


Panasonic G7 25mm SS3.2' F22 ISO800

Obviously, final photographs will be far more profound in every aspect then in this quick 'sketch', however this represents the tone and atmosphere I want to achieve in my photos. 


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  1. Zoe Van-de-Velde24 January 2021 at 14:57

    Good work - we discussed this in class ready for sign off

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