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