Idea For Approach To Assignment 4- Gardens.

I've started looking around for inspiration for an approach for this section on conservation in our gardens and was having some difficulty in coming up with a good idea that would work well with my juxoposition type of photography when I came across this collection of work produced by a photographer called Andre Defreitas using double exposures to create some great imagery (see the website for the full collection andredefreitas.com). Double exposures is a very old photographic technique where you'd take one shot then without winding the film on or changing the plate say in very old cameras you'd take a second exposure that when developed would produce a film image that appears to be two photos overlaying one another. On the website mentioned above it was these photos below that captured my eye and got me thinking about how I could use this process.

Images taken from andredefreitas.com

What I like about this work and these kind of shots in general is the way that you first tend to study the image to spot the two individual images combined and then you begin to think about the connection that form between the two. For example take the top image of the flower and building, I think they work well together because you have the natural shapes created by nature within the flower and then the more structured straightness of the lines of the building which create a good contrast. You could even look at it in much deeper terms as being a study of how nature can influence our own architecture.

What I'm thinking about is how I can reproduce this kind of effect in Photoshop and produce the kind of work that has clear messages about the issue of conservation in gardens and what we can do to help, the one thing I've got to be careful of is that sometimes these kind of photos can be a bit too busy feeling because you can end up with so much visually going on. In away it has similarities to how I've approached the National Park side of this assignment but this way puts more pressure on having two photos that can combine without having to alter anything at all in work flow. If I get this right I pretty sure it'll produce some great imagery.