So after quite sometime deciding how to tackle my next assignment I decided that I would present the assignment using some sort of effect on the photographs to convey a message demanding that the viewer look beyond the obvious. The brief for the assignment was to take compositional photographs concentrating on elements of design. The photographs had to be thematically consistent. I decided on illustrating the those elements within the "landscape" theme and particularly concentrating on Sicily. My aim was to draw on the inherent conflicts within Sicily which is a land weighted by an ancient heritage and yet brimming with modern ideals. This conflict is not immediately apparent on the surface but that message is obvious once one looks beyond the holiday destination to the ingredients within the infrastructure: past, present and looking to the future. I eventually settled on an infrared effect. I don't have an infrared camera so I mimicked the effect in photoshop (beyond just using the filter! I relied on a tut from photoradar ). I settled on this effect because infrared photography accentuates different tones and highlights in the subject and in turn demanding that message be looked at in a different way too.
