My intentions on the approach of landscapes

Q.What is your approach to your landscapes? Following this lecture on landscape photography you will need write up to 300 words about how you intend to approach the landscape part of the brief. Use visual references to help understand your approach. Reflect on what you are trying to achieve. Does your work reflect any of the approaches discussed in the lecture?

At the moment I’m looking at interior and inland scenery to photograph for landscape. I’m not certain of either therefore I plan on shooting both ideas and tying it in at the end with both still life and portrait to see which works best with my theme of Autumn. I need to prevent from being too obvious with this subject matter, especially with some of the ideas I had originally planned for it. At the same time I wanted my imaged to be contextualised, focused, bright and colourful images just like something from advertisement. Through my test shoots I can figure which direction I wish to proceed with. During the lecture the work of Noel McLaughlin was presented to us and his work for me linked similarly with my concept of colour. Colour is going to be my main focus for this brief as I see autumn as the bold tones of red, yellow, brown and orange therefore McLaughlin’s image presenting colours that fitted my needs gave me something to look at and consider for style of how I will present autumn in its not so obvious form. Thinking of ways to present autumn in the least obvious way, the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto also caught my eye. His images have no focus and all that is visible to the eye is just these dull colours. One of his images is of the sea but you wouldn't be able to tell for definite unless you read the title. Once you’ve read the title it all becomes so clear. This style of photography I find encourages the viewer to look further into the image because it is unclear at first sight. I need to experiment with all ideas and find one which suites my idea of presenting Autumn as a time of year to look forward to rather than to doubt.