Andy Hughes

Humans are forever making mistakes and some would say that's how we've become so great but our faults are still just as important as the successes to remember. From remembering our mistakes we can make sure that they do not happen again. I think Andy Hughes is relevant to my title 'evidence' because Andy Hughes's style reflects so much of our faults, not just in terms of rubbish but even for more damaging problems. For example the photograph of the beer bottle, that bottle is ruining our beautiful landscape but as one moment that bottle was part of a brilliant moment in the past and it is left in evidence of that moment. Like immense tragedies it takes a long time to forget them, that beer bottle will lye there for many, many years if it wasn't picked up but photographing this tells so much about the past and our behaviour as human being, hopefully I can make the viewer realise that we should never litter and however small or big it will always leave a mark of this plant..

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So at the very start of finding the photograph which is most alike to the original I look through all the picture putting all the very, not similar at lot, photographs in a folder. Then I am left with just the ones that are slightly similar, then I refine it down to ones where the positioning of the bottle is right and the lighting is similar. The ones which I think are most similar I rename to close, close 1 etc. The reason these four were the ones I choose is because of many factors, one being that all the others the background wasn't straight. The four left I found that I actually liked the look of them despite if they weren't completely identical to the original photography. I settled on close 2 because I felt that it was one of the closest to the original and that it was also a nice photograph in its self. I also liked the focal length of this photograph, like the original the sand in fron of the bottle was blurred and the background was also blurred like my photograph.

Again I started by taking the really bad ones out and putting them in a folder. The reasons I took them out is just because of basic problems, the framing was totally wrong, they were taken just to test if I had the setting right, ISO, shutter, exposure etc. So then I looked through all that were left again and compared them with the original picture, if they were similar I renamed them close, close 2... The factors that I was thinking about to say they were similar was that the bottle was centred or close to, that the light was right on the bottle and the background was similar with a wave breaking, and that it was a good quality picture overall.

Lastly the picture I had a slight issue with, like all my pictures for my reference book I print out the original to use as reference and to make my picture as accurate as possible. This original picture I printed out had cut the top half of the picture out, the top of the bottle was in the frame, so I didn't know anything about it at the time and shot it just how the photographer did... For most of these photographs I took I have cut the top of the bottle off so my choice was limited. Even though I was aiming to cut the top off I had one good picture with the whole of the bottle in shot, this one ticked most boxes, the lighting was good with a shadow of the bottle, the shape of the bottle was right and the position of the camera was also good but annoyingly the background is slightly too dark.