TECHNICAL:

This photo shows an element of natural lighting and how daylight can affect your photo. each different type of lighting can have a different effect to your photo, for example natural lighting fits this photo the best as it shows that everything is natural whereas when taking a portrait of someone natural lighting could be stronger on one side of the face than the other which changes the whole photos purpose. I would say this photo has a hard level of control and it is impossible to move anything but the camera therefore you could get different angles of this scene but not necessarily move any one part of the photo. The control of this photo shows how badly we are affecting this world as we cannot move it, but we can destroy it with global warming, burning fuels and enormous amounts of greenhouse gases in the air. Ansel Adams has given this photo quite a cold tone as the black and white lighting adds a colder tone, if the photo were to have a slightly warmer tone I feel the photo would make me feel almost as if the photo is burning as the cold tone makes the photo look normal and just right, the area looks like a cold place and having a warm tone over it wouldn’t look right and make it look almost like it’s in an odd place. The aperture looks focused as if nothing in the photo is blurry, and you can spot things well. Even though it looks like there is fog in the distance the camera does not really pick it up and almost cancels it out. The iOS 100 has a clean image with no noise around it and has quite high sensitivity.

CONTEXTUAL:

The image was taken at The Tetons and The Snake River, The Tetons and the Snake River is a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams in 1942, at the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming. It is one of his best known and most critically acclaimed photographs. That river is famous and well known because of the inspiration given to photographers, professionals as well as amateurs. Ansel Adams had taken this photo in 1942, Ansel Adams was the first to get an award for his photography in 1946. He had taken photos of every national park. Ansel Adams had visited 27 out of the 28 national parks missing Everglades National Park in Florida. Ansel Adams liked the idea that proving that landscape plays an important part of the American conservation movement. He wants to make a constant reminder that landscape needs to be protected due to all the earth’s diseases, such as global warming. As a youth, Ansel Adams spent much time outdoors developing a love of nature and taking photographs of these special places. 

CONCEPTUAL:

The idea of this photo shows how pure this photo is and how nature needs to be protected at all costs, Ansel Adams wants to keep nature in photos as in a couple of years those areas will not look like that. The world is slowly dying with forest fires happening and destroying trees and other wildlife, this means that those photos will be the only memories left of the national parks. These areas will change either way because people are cutting down trees, and the weather will look different on different days. The meaning of these photos are purely a reminder of what nature looked like in the 1940s and how different it looks now , how we as humans have destroyed it, it’s almost as if it’s a message saying I told you so, that we are destroying this world and we aren’t doing anything to protect and prevent all these bad things and once they happen we won’t be able to go back. The notion of this photo shows that the world is dying, and humans will not stop producing bad products, this world is known as cruel, Ansel Adams is representing this by taking photos of landscape. I also believe that this photo could suggest how each generation has changed and how little children are always on their phones and never playing outside. They are missing out and will never experience this beauty. As Ansel Adams said himself, he liked being outside as he developed a love for nature and taking pictures of those special places and I believe that as generations get older nature gets less and less appreciated and therefore those photos will hold a lot of meaning in the future. 

VISUAL:

This photo has quite a repetitive pattern with the trees being scattered around the photo on the sides which creates this biodiversity of a forest, where each tree has been cloned and pasted in the same place to create an illusion of theoretical fractals are infinitely. This photo shows the true elements of nature where there are not any manufactured items found in the photo and everything is natural, there are not any people or any animals found, it almost gives a peaceful effect. This photo was turned into black and white purely because Ansel Adams felt that colour could be distracting and could therefore divert an artist’s attention from the achievement of his full potential when taking a photograph. The colours in the photo are known to take people’s attention when they want the photos’ details and texture to attract the naked eye. This photos texture looks quite smooth around the middle bit where the river lays however around the tree the texture of the photo looks quite rough which could show the two different sides of nature and how it is pure and beautiful and how there are wars going, global warming and many other things destroying our planet. The texture of the mountains almost gives off a rough texture, however, the colour white softens that texture to create a more smoothened texture. All together I would say the texture is balanced between a soft and rough pattern all around the photo surrounding the river. The layout of this photo is really well positioned as it shows the real beauty of nature, each element has a feature in the photo without leaving it out, for example the trees have a big part in the photo and show that they give off a rough texture whereas the river is mid centre to represent that everything should be smooth and nothing should go wrong if you think positively about it.