Milan born photographer Luca Tombolini uses large format photography and an eye for the simplicity in nature to create unique landscape photographs. His choice of angles and the soft, pastel coloured light which illuminates the fluent shapes of rock and sand, allow for images that  blur the line between photography and painting.

 

Some of his photos are not immediately recognisable for what they are, nature become an abstract; a conglomerate of contrasting and complementing shapes and colours.

 

Here I looked into the difference in texture and choice of colour in photographs of the sea.

The first image resonated with me as the photographer achieves the seemingly endless vastness of the sea blending with the blue of the horizon. The flat surface creates softness and although the colours of the photo are all different shades of blue the texture of the water make the image interesting to me.

Also in this colour palette is the image below however here, the texture of light and water is very different. The sharp rays of the sun perching through the surface, illuminating the two freedivers makes the depth of the water visible, almost tangible. Very different from the first photo this one captures the dimension of the sea vertically, the angle of photographing upwards creates a sense of the unknown of what is below. The first image shows only the surface of the sea, the horizontal dimension and thus the vastness rather than depth.

Furthermore, the second photo also holds an air of mystique to it. The sun rays can almost seem like the light falling through the windows of a tall cathedral.

Lastly, I chose this photo as it shows yet another textuality of the water, the soft waves smooth surface illuminated by an orange sky. The perspective of the photographer is just above the surface almost submerged into the gesturing stream.

 

To round up the Group Workshop I highlighted in my last post, we were asked to take portraits of each other which should reflect the stereotypical “Art Student”.

Below is a collection of portraits I took of my group member.

 

 

 

 

 

In Week 8 during our camera workshop at Grand Parade we were given the brief “Art School“. In groups of 4 we spread out to find interesting features and objects that we could photograph to fulfil the brief. Our group first went with the colour green, we took photos of plants in the stairway and posters that had anything green in them. However, we didn’t really feel comfortable with this response, especially since there weren’t that many green objects around the campus. We then changed our plan and decided to go for lockers instead. Many of the lockers in the hallway had stickers and paint on them which in our opinion really captured the creative and free spirited atmosphere at the Grand Parade campus.