Shoot 1 - White Landscapes

I really like how this shoot came out, because I think that I have genuinely captured the depth that I was looking for, as well as the intricate, twisting shapes that are so reminiscent of hills or glaciers in Rolfsen's series. I would say that the bag that I used for the shoot is somewhat more opaque than the ones Rolfsen tends to use, however, it still let in enough light to give some shadow and depth to the shapes and the bag itself, all around making the images better and more full.

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I have also chosen the following 4 as my best images:

The reason I have chosen these four is because they each showcase the perfect level of depth and sense of 'never-endingness' that I was hoping to achieve, as well as showing a number of different shapes and details that fill up the image and give it a brilliant detailed texture and sense of scale, for instance, in the 1st image, the direction of the curvature leads the eye through to the left, where you can see that it continues behind the obscuring foreground shape; this creates the idea that beyond what you can see, it continues to go on further, like a cavern.

I also like the way in which the 3rd image actually has a lack of visual interruption in the left of the image; unlike most of the other photos I took, although not what I intended, this clear space really shows off the landscape imagery that the abstract photographs are subtly trying to imitate, as you can imagine yourself standing on the height of a hilltop, looking out at the countryside.

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However, I also picked out the following three to showcase the ways in which some of my photos failed or are simply not 'good':

The first one is a case of a practical problem, as you can clearly see, there is a black spot in the bottom left that detracts from the rest of the image (not to mention it looks like a bug on the screen). In reality, this spot is one of a number of holes in the bag that I found, which caused a number of images to be ruined as it is hard to spot through the lens, but becomes a distraction once you see the images at a larger size.

The second image is more an example of poor design to an extent, as the problem with it and a few others in the shoot is that it lacks any real sense of shape, scale or depth; the large 'hill' in the foreground blocks most of the background and is otherwise flat, meaning that most of the image is obscured by a flat-ish white plain with no real substance to it.

Then the third and final image is a similar problem, this time methodological as it is to do with my own camera positioning more than anything. This is because the image is ruined somewhat by the two, far too close, blurry white outcrops on each side of the image. In some of my photos, similar outcrops add to the depth of the image, but when they are too large and too close as they are in the image in question, it detracts from the image, and distracts the eye.

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Moving forward, I intend to do a similar shoot, this time using coloured bags, not only as this seems like the next logical step, but also because Rolfsen's own work features many colour hues such as pink, orange and blue, and I want to explore that avenue slightly.