Adam Green
ANALYSIS OF LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKS
Ansel Adams was a landscape photographer. He is most well known for his black-and-white
landscape photographs taken in western America.
Adams took his first photographs in 1916, but it was not until 1930
that he wanted to become a professional photographer.
The images I am going to annotate are from 1941 and 1942.
ANSEL ADAMS
This photograph is taken in a rural location of decay. The
buildings are ruined, and the area is deserted. The
photograph was taken in the early 1900’s, therefore the
photograph is captured with film. The photograph is also
black and white. The mood is rather dull, as the contrast is low and everything looks old and desolate. Due to the age,
it was not possible for any manipulation to have
occurred.
ANSEL ADAMS
This photograph (like most (if not all) of Adam’s works) was
taken in western America. The photograph was taken on film. The photograph has a lot of depth to it; there is a large
distance from the nearest point to the furthest point.
The contrast is much higher with this one, allowing us to see more depth, and makes
the photograph more visually appealing.
ANSEL ADAMS
Galen Rowell was a wilderness photographer. Born in 1940, he is most well known for portrait
oriented colorful landscape photographs.
Rowell became a professional photographer in 1972, and used his interest in the wilderness to take interesting photographs.
He died in 2002.
GALEN ROWELL
This photograph was taken in Bear Creek Spire, of California.
The photograph has a beautiful range of colours, ranging from dark greys, bright oranges, and a range of greens. The image is taken from a low vantage point. This way we
capture a lot of the grass, and less of the sky, which is not as
interesting.
The image has a lot of depth to it, there is a large distance from the
foreground to the background, meaning a small aperture was used.
GALEN ROWELL
This photograph was taken in Patagonia, Chile. The
photograph has a middling vantage point. We can see a lot
of the greenery at the lower half of the photograph. And yet we
can also see the the sky in great detail. The mountains in the
background are very interesting because of their colour.
Everything in the frame is in focus, meaning a small aperture
would be required.
GALEN ROWELL
Adam Burton is a landscape photographer from the
United Kingdom. He has been a professional landscape
photographer since 2008. He is self taught, and has done
so since 2001.
Burton favours rich colours of dusk, where natural light is
the most interesting.
ADAM BURTON
Burton has used reflection from the water to create a fantastic landscape.
The horizon has been centered, in order to make it look like it has been
mirrored.
The image has likely been edited in Photoshop, however, only to change
levels, brightness etc.
Again, a slow shutter speed has been used to capture the fog in a blurry
way.
ADAM BURTON
This photograph is named “The Dragons Teeth”. As we can see there is a very high dynamic range to it. We can
see numerous of the dark parts in great detail, yet we can see the sky in very good
detail.
The colour is also rather dynamic. There is a high range of colours. There is
potentially some Photoshop in place, however a lot of the
mist would have been captured via slow shutter
speed.
ADAM BURTON
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