Pastiche Initial Research

For Task 1 from Environmental project I've chosen Robert Adams photograph called 'On Signal Hill Overlooking Long Beach, California' from 1983.

 

The manipulation of light in this photograph gives off a ghostly effect, utilizing the smog of L.A. and the choice of black and white film, makes the scene almost reminiscent of the horror genre.

He has set up his exposure to favour the shadows of the trees, in order to silhouette them against the white foggy background, so that trees appear to be more cut out of the fog.

The trees stand on thick black grass in the foreground, exposed so that you can recognise more the presence of grass and trees, instead of fully realised trees and grass, reinforcing this theme of death that the photograph generates. In fact looking at the slither of the grey city sandwiched in between black dead trees and grass, and an abyss of endless fog, Adams has transformed this hillside view of Los Angeles, into a scene depicting either the city of the dead, or some form of ghoulish after life.

I've found the place which recalls me about this photograph. Basically few weeks before uni started I way on the hill, overlooking at town where I'm going to spend some time. I was wondering about to start some project about it, and there it is.

To my pastiche I'm going to add more ghostly effect. I'll try to do my best to take the picture as same as possible but with something mine. 

My area is quite creepy; according to this 'ghostly effect' which is in the top picture; I will play with that.

I'm wondering about long time exposure or camera/lens movement to add some more weird details. So far I took pictures which looks quite scary. Stylized models for people which you never would like to meet on the street and raw, cold landscape makes frightening and ghostly effect.