A03 Record (photographs), A04 Personal Responses / Final Outcomes

Shoot one – Final images and comparison

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This image was taken with the intent of showing the contrast from the light and shadow on the mountain. The reason I chose this scene was that it was an untouched face and there were no ski tracks on it and no-one had used it so it was still ‘pure’.
This image is called Monolith the half face dome by Ansel Adams and it was the main inspiration for this image as it shows the snow, the rock race and the trees.

When comparing my image to it there are lots of similarities but his image has a greater sense of perspective and depth withe the cliff face being the main subject but he also has the cliff and trees to the right and then the mountains in the distance. Whereas my image only has the far mountains and some trees in the slightly closer section.

This image was taken to emphasise the one peak in the middle of the image, it also shows the valley in front of it and the other peaks to the side of it and there is a small bit of the ski run in the foreground but it somewhat helps to show perspective.
This image is cathedral peak and lake by Ansel Adams; withing it there is an amazing composition with the rocks being close and just below with the lake leading into the mountain with the boarder being broken up by trees and snow. There is also a dramatic and cloudy sky. Because he has used a very wide depth of filed so that everything in the image is in focus.

In comparison my image has clear elements of Adams in that there is a good sense of depth of field with the run in the front and some smaller mountains to the side and everything leads up to the main focus, the mountain, even though the sky was completely blue for me so i had to dramatise it in post with things like gradient filters and highlights.
This image shows another peak but it is of a mountain that has run coming down to the bottom right of the frame and there is a slope to the left of the frame that has some tracks on it which gives some more shadows and texture.
Ansel Adams photo of Owens Valley, California
This image is called cathedral CA by Ansel Adams and in it it has the lower set of mountains and then a cloud splitting it from the higher peak just above it, the colour composition goes from dark at the bottom then getting lighter and lighter then the sky at the top is dark again.

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