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Location -2- photography

Image 1, by Gregory Crewdson

This image shows one man standing in a rural area.

He is looking up with his head tiled up

The cloths the man is wearing match the colours of the surrounding.

There is a bridge above him and trees and bushes surrounding like a circle.

There is a bright light behind him also in a circle but behind him.

The light is bright yet there is also so percentage of smog present.

Why I chose this?

The trees and bushes that surround the subject have a nice greenery colour and misty shadows behind the theme of the land.  The man is wearing a green top and blue short that blend in with the scenery image.  His skin tone also blends in with the shadow tones behind him and the brick work above him.  The eye and chin colour also blends in with the tree trunk and the gravel on the ground.  On the whole it can be used as art work, fashion just for the love of rural land and natural beauty

Image 2 by Gregory Crewdson

This above is a very cold image yet also very warm to the heart and fresh.  The snow makes it feel very chrismassy and merry.

The main subject is the car with buildings on either side.

The photo is unique, because the day or even in the next half hour, later you will not be able to capture this image as everything will be different in some form, for example, the weather, light of the day, there may be more cars on the road and therefore more tyre marks in the snow etc.

The colour of the sky seems to blend in with the ground.

I think it’s an early morning shot because there is not much traffic or people, there are a few people in the shops as some lights are on in the shops, can it be people are getting ready to open their shops.

You can only see the tyre marks of the one car in the snow.

The main subject, the car is stopped at the traffic lights and maybe getting ready to drive of.

      The image is not of UK as the car is on the right hand side of the road.

About - Gregory Crewdson's

Gregory Crewdson's photos usually take place in small town America, are dramatic and usually have one main subject in his images and often disturbing, surreal events.

Gregory Crewdson photos are shot using large crew members and are highly staged and lit.

His life

Gregory Crewdson was born in 1962 and he is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.

As a teenager, he was part of a punk rock group called The Speedies that hit the New York scene in selling out shows all over town.

In the mid 1980s, Crewdson studied photography at Sunny, near Port Chester, NY. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University

He has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Cooper Union, Vassar College, and Yale University where he has been on the faculty since 1993. He is now a professor at the Yale University School of Art.

 In 2012, he was the subject of the feature documentary film Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters. 

Gregory Crewdson is represented by Gagosian Gallery worldwide and by White in London.

The two images below are - by Adam Burton

I have chosen two of his image that I admire most and will examine in detail.

 

This above image did not give any information of where it was taken or l may have not spotted it, but I chose it due to the colours and the beauty of sky, sunset, and the shapes of the two rocks standing apart can be due to erosion.      

You can see the calmness of the sea with the tide going out slowly, this is due to the fact the lower ends of the two rocks show a darker colour i.e. that the rocks were wet and the top section of the rocks are dry.  It also shows the fast movement of the sky, clearing of the morning sunset and the beautiful orange-yellow colour darker on the horizon and clearing out towards the right side of the image.

This image is unique because the weather will not be the same again and the shapes to the two rocks, over time they may not hold the same shape and maybe not even the colours

The colours of the two rocks blend in well with the sea and the cracks on the side of the rocks with the sunset.

by Adam Burton

Blue and Green

Isle of Portland, Dorset

This above image is of the sea shore in Dorset.  It shows the calmness of sea, the horizon meeting the sea and the calmness in sky.  You can see the clouds near the horizon but, near the shore the clouds have cleared and a hit of the reddish sunset colour in the sky. 

On the ground by the seashore the grey pebbles are covered in green algae and the pebbles closer to the sea shore are covered in sea weed as well as algae.

The far side of the image the you can see lot of erosion has occurred on the hill which can be seen due to the slop of the hill and lots of weed and algae growth is also visible plus lots of trees and bushes are growing on the hill top and near land.   Moving further away from the edge of the hill towards stable grounds, small bungalow like houses can be seen but no people are nearby.  Below the hill, seashore level, there are more small houses.

'The Crest of a Wave' by Bruffy

How did you get into landscape photography?
 

I got into Landscape photography because my partner at the time got a DSLR camera and started going out and about at sunset time, after a while I loved what she was doing, and eventually I got bitten by the bug.

Talk us through how you set up a shot and what techniques you use to capture them.

When I set up a shot, I find the composition that I want, and with the camera on my tripod, set it to full manual settings. I generally decide what filters to use and set the ISO to 100. I then decide what f stop to use to suit the scene, meter for the light and set the exposure time. I take the image using a remote switch to minimise shake. Most of the time I use a cheap single Cokin P121S graduated filter because I find I get the best results from it and less colour cast. I like to include bold foregrounds and try to make them as interesting as possible.