{"id":1514,"date":"2018-02-13T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T22:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogsksbeedu.wpenginepowered.com\/khsphotography\/?page_id=1514"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:57:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:57:21","slug":"photo-ii-project-4-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/khsphotography\/photo-ii-project-4-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo II – Project #4: Landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

OVERVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In case you weren’t aware, all projects in the first quarter revolve around the themes of “community” and “relationships”.\u00a0 To explore these ideas, Projects 1 and 2 were about relationships – your relationship with yourself and then strengthening relationships with those in your immediate community (the classroom).\u00a0 Project 3 is about symbolism and how inanimate objects may be loaded with meaning and represent different cultural values found in our communities.<\/p>\n

Project 4 asks you to look at community through the land, specifically landscapes.\u00a0 Choose a community, place, or landscape that you feel strongly connected to, and photograph the landscape or physical environment in a way that communicates your relationship to the place.\u00a0 It will help if you choose a landscape that you have easy access to – if you want to photograph your home town but you’re a boarder, well lucky you, it\u02bbs a common weekend!<\/p>\n

Once you\u02bbve chosen your landscape\/community, do some research! \u00a0Check out the Midkiff Learning Center website on Wahi Pana<\/a> to see if you can learn more about your subject matter. \u00a0What is your location named for\/after? \u00a0What grows<\/a> in your community? \u00a0What\u02bbs the history of the land? \u00a0Who<\/a> lived there? \u00a0What mele<\/a> or mo\u02bbolelo are about your place? \u00a0See how this research may inform the way you photograph and related to this space.<\/p>\n

In a way, this project is sort of like a documentary of place – things change in Hawai’i so quickly, what with construction and land development happening all the time.\u00a0 Just 5 years ago, Kaka’ako looked completely different for example, and I’m sure it’s happening all over the islands.\u00a0 Think about what you want to preserve or celebrate in your landscape when you’re taking pictures.<\/p>\n

One famous landscape photographer you should know of is Ansel Adams. \u00a0When he took pictures, he wasn\u02bbt just taking pictures of the land (point, shoot, process, pau) – he was previsualizing what he wanted and actively working with his camera and the environment to make emotional, meaningful images. \u00a0Almost like taking a portrait of the landscape. \u00a0Watch the video below on legendary landscape photographer Ansel Adams and his photographic process to learn more.
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