Unit 57: Photography and Photographic

Practice Research of other

photographers work

Photographer:

Galen Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a famous landscape photographer from California, USA.

Photographer:

Charlie Waite (born 1949) is an English landscape photographer, noted for his “painterly” approach in using light and shade

Photographer:

Colin Prior (born 1958) is an Scottish landscape photographer, who grew up in Glasgow. He has spent many years travelling the world alone with his camera.

Examples of photographs

Examples of photographs

Examples of photographs

Choose an image…. Describe it

The photo was taken in a mountainous area of Alaska,

USA.

The sky is very clear without clouds and is very visible at the top of the photo. The photo is

framed so you can see the closer things near the bottom

such as the water and the surface, but can also clearly

see the mountains in the back ground.

Composition

Prior has made the decision of framing the photo in order to have

the summit of the mountain placed in the centre of the photo. I get the feeling he wanted to capture a

contrast in the photo by having the clear blue of the water on the right hand side of the photo and dark

wasteland area on the left.

Techniques used

I can’t really see noteworthy techniques in this photo and after looking through some of Prior’s other work, I can’t see much there

either.

Strengths & Weaknesses

I like the framing of Prior’s photographs, especially in this example. He has decided what

he wants or doesn’t want to include, such as not capturing more of the mountain and by

contrasting the different things in each half of the photo. The only weakness that springs to

mind are the lack of techniques, although the photo’s quality

doesn’t really decrease without them.