Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Landscape Evaluation

Sources of information

For the first part of my photography assignment I had to pick 3 genres of photography to base my pictures on and research 3 photographers for each genre, I picked Fashion, Equine and Landscape. For my Landscape research I picked Ansel Adams, Fay Godwin and Marc Adamus as my 3 photographers. Firstly I researched on Ansel Adams as his work caught my eye as the use of black and white really brought out the detail in the pictures. Fay Godwins photographs grabbed my attention as they were also in black and white but with a bit more light than Ansel and this made the pictures different but still very beautiful. Also Marc Adamus’s photographs have a lot of colour to them and this really grabs your attention to the picture the bright colours and the silhouette of the surroundings give it that simple touch. I chose these photographers as they were all different to each other and had all produced amazing work. I was given inspiration by all three photographers but mainly Marc Adamus as I wanted the silhouette look on mine with the coloured sky but I will give it my own touch as I don’t want it to be too similar to theses photographers.

Production Process

Before going out and taking my own landscape pictures I taught how to use a SLR, lighting, rule of thirds and more so I could produce better photos. Also I had to sort out a post-production file filled with research, mind maps, shooting schedules, booking fees, recces, risk assessments and health and safety. I also had to decide on what look I was going for and just like my fashion and equine photography I decided I wanted the autumn feel to it but I wanted to focus more on the skies colour as I wanted to get the pinks and blues and purples but I didn’t want to chance not getting the photographs as it is quite hard to get them colours in the skies so I went out on the 11th of Novemeber which was a nice clear day and walked to the woods near my house and took pictures as the sky was blue I knew I could edit them on photoshop to have the colours I was looking for. Once the pictures were taken, the next day I got in to college and uploaded the pictures to a Mac and then opened photoshop. I then watched youtube tutorials on how to edit the sky on photoshop and edited my pictures the same way with just a couple of changes as the pictures on the videos was different to mine and I wanted to make them look realistic. Over all I am really happy with the out come of my photographs and I really enjoyed doing this assignment.

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