Research and Analysis

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY

Landscape photography usually captures the presence of nature, usually free of people and man made obstructions.

Joe Cornish and Charlie Waite are both examples of landscape photographers.

ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY

Advertising photography is mainly used to sell a product.

To explain the product and show the viewers why they should buy it/ use the service.

Another name for this style of photography is commercial photography.

Jonathon Knowles is an example of an advertisement photographer.

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

Uses models

Incorporates there beauty

Uses body form to complement clothes

Charlie Waite is and English landscape photographer. He is one of the world’s leading photographers. He worked in theatre and television and for the first 10 years of his professional life. Charlie Waite is known for using light and shade in his pictures and for using 6x6 sizes. He has done lectures around the UK, Europe and the US. He has published many books on photography and is a regular contributor to photography magazines. He also runs and takes part in a photographic tour company called Light and Land. Other photographers in the Landscape photography field are Joe Cornish and Colin Prior.

Jonathon Knowles is a London based advertising photographer who specialises in graphic still life, liquid and people photography. His unique style has earned him national and international advertising commissions working with advertising agencies worldwide. In the past 6 years he has constantly been in the ‘200 Best Advertising Photographers in The World’ books. He is now one of the top 10 all time winners in the graphics annuals. Jonathon Knowles has just had his three images included in their volume ‘100 Best In Photography’ published on 1^st may 2011.

Jason Christopher was born in southern California and is a Los Angeles California based fashion photographer. His photographs have been described as classic, romantic and clean. He picked up his first camera at the age of 14, which was a Canon AE-1. He began to take interest in Italian designers that he saw in fashion magazines. Then he began to assist celebrity photographer Jerry Avenaim. Jason gained his technical photography skills during that period. Jason Christophers photography has been compared to the French painter Degas and Leonardo Da Vinci for the way he uses clean, classic lines of the body, resembling fine art. His motto is: “Be prepared, or prepare to fail.”

Analysis of my 8 pictures

This is an architectural photograph. It hasn’t got a meaning, it’s just a good image of a pub. There is no main object in this photograph and the subject matter is not immediately identifiable. This photograph has social content in the subject matter because it is the side of a building which is a pub and this is where people socialise together. This picture is the same as how I took it and hasn’t been edited or changed. The main part of the image is on the right side. The colours are very neutral and similar apart from the green hanging decorations which stand out because they are green and there is contrast between the other colours. There are reoccurring lines in this photograph which follow to the same direction. There are also reoccurring shapes and forms. The two light shades, multiple green hanging circles, and the two windows that are open make the image seem more 3D. This is good because you can only see one side of the building and without these different shapes and forms, the image would seem very 2D.

The image could be noisy as well as quiet. It seems noisy because there are a lot of different focus points and places to look at, but it could also be classed at quiet because there isn’t much going on and the layout seems tidy and organised. The picture is neutral and doesn’t convey a certain mood or feeling.  There was no planning beforehand for example, no sketches were made. This is because I didn’t know what I was going to take picture of and just took photographs of scenes that I thought would look good in a photograph. No materials have been used to create this image, and