Robert Adams is an american based photographer who worked primarily during the 70’s. His photography has earned him several rewards including 2 Guggenheim fellowships, a MacArthur fellowship and a Hasselblad award. Robert lived in Denver Colorado for the majority of his life and as such attended the university of Boulder Colorado. Between 1964 and 2009 Robert began shooting photos under the collection known as ‘The place we live’ showing the evolving landscape and social climate of the place that Robert Adams called home for the majority of his life. A lot of Roberts work features a documentary style of photography however some of the images do have more of an artistic styling to them. Most of the images are shot using quite harsh lighting presumably on film. The source of lighting varies between images however more use natural sunlight. there are however quite a few examples of night-time shots using various forms of artificial lighting.

The lighting used in this is a harsh natural light likely taken around mid day due to the intensity of the shadows as well as their direction. Since the image is in black and white there is no discernible color temperature nor tint. The image is quite high contrast with no visible light source in frame or glare. The aperture appears to be quite small as the whole frame is in focus. High speed film was likely used due to the harsh natural lighting visible in frame however the aperture appears to be small and that might’ve required compensation to be correctly exposed. since a lot of his shots are of various buildings and american architecture often prioritizes speed and cost of materials resulting in rather geometric shapes of buildings, the images often feature strong geometric elements often consisting of rectangles. There are some patterns created in the image consisting of various tiling or masonry elements in the buildings. Although a lot of the images aren’t necessarily of homes they are still of his hometown.

Most of his daylight shots were taken very similarly to this image in terms of technical elements.

His night-time shots differ from his daylight shots in that they often feature a visible light source and sometimes utilize glare within the image.