Landscape - Work Diary

In todays session we were tasked with taking pictures of landscapes. Whilst I found this task easy to understand and knew exactly what I had to do, I found it difficult to take pictures of landscapes in my surroundings due to it being an urban area with lots of buildings. I still did manage to take a few images that I liked and I edited these in Photoshop to be black and white as I tried to make my work look as though it was inspired by the photographer Ansel Adams. Below is an image I liked and one I did not like.

This was my favourite image from the shoot as I believe it is the best representation of a landscape that I took. I also liked how, due to the puddles on the floor, it has created contrasting tones which I manipulated in Photoshop to appear even more contrasting. I did this as high tonal contrast is a clear theme in Ansel Adams work.

This was an image I did not like. I took this image as I was attempting to get a picture of the road. I wanted it to be a clear road and I wanted it to be completely straight across the middle as this would create perfectly horizontal lines. This did not work for two reasons. The first is that I took the image at an angle and so the lines are not horizontal but are slanted, and secondly you can see a car enter the image in the bottom right corner.

Progression

When I next shoot landscape photography, I would try and follow the work of a different photographer such as Stephen Shore as I found it hard to do this with Ansel Adams. This is because I am in an urban landscape whilst Ansel Adams shot images of natural landscapes. I would also try to take more pictures as due to the setting I was in and the weather I was restricted with time and did not manage to take many.