Nick Albertson

Nick Albertson is an artist from Boston Massachusetts and was born in 1983. His work has been exhibited in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and New York as well as internationally. His work is very pattern bases and focuses on themes such as repetition, line, shape and texture. I have shown some of his photo shoots below.

Immovable Shadow

Manufactured Gestures

White Light

Tape Cuts

Photo Sprays

Ernst Haas

Haas was an Austrian-American photojournalist and during his 70 year career, began using photography to express creativity. He was born in 1921 and died in 1986. He is famous for his long shutter speed images that really show natural movement. One of his common subjects for his photographs was water and throughout his career seemed to have a passion for different ways light is reflected and refracted. Haas photographed many different things throughout his career which i have listed below.

Flora

Creation

Abstract

Motion

Americas

Comparison

The lighting in Albertson’s image is very bright and we can tell by the type of light that the image was most likely taken in a studio using artificial light. Also there is contrast between the bright and vibrant colours. However, in Haas’s image we can tell that the light is very natural and there is little to no contrast. Also the colours in the second image are not vibrant and the lack of colour creates a dull tone.

Alberton’s image is taken as a close up as we cannot see the surrounding of the image which was done deliberately to compare and contrast the colours to the dark and angular shadows in the background. However in Haas’s image the photo is taken as a medium length photo as we are not seeing the image from far away but at the same time we are not seeing it up close.

The first image is very angular and colourful, however it has not much depth but we can still see the shadows made from the angular tape. This is similar to Haas’s image as it also is very angular and casts angular shadows but lacks the vibrancy of the colours. The first image is most likely cropped to get the very angular and minimalist features but i do not believe Haas’s image is cropped because he wanted to keep the man made and light and dark features.

Albertson’s images were taken from the early 1990’s – now so he had the opportunity to work with the best equipment to take precise and vibrant colours to his wishes compared to when Haas took his photos from around 1930-86 when he died.