Ansel Adams was an American landscape photographer, and environmentalist, known for his black-and-white images of the American West, whereas Peter Mitchell is a British documentary photographer, known for documenting Leeds and the surrounding area for more than 40 years.

Ansell Adams example:

Ansell Adams photography relies very much on ‘the zone system’, which portrays dark and in depth element’s, which creates more within the field of view and creates a story. This creates a new lense over the human eye and a new story, portraying that it obviously didn’t actually look like this when the photograph was taken, he has added his own spin on what the human eye is viewing.

Peter Mitchell example:

Peter Mitchell’s photographs create a reality, where the image is almost exactly the same as he would’ve seen when he took the photo. The photo portrays a real life story, one where you can really see what he was trying to capture and where you can see his ideas coming to life, using a model to create a field of depth within the image, and a scale tro size of how widely he has taken this image.

Comparison:

These two images are so similar yet so different. Some similarities include the use of wide landscape photography, created a long vertical image which focuses on things further in the background rather than an image like a up-close headshot for example. They also relate in how they use field of view, for example Peter Mitchell’s use of thing like the man stood at his door and the use of the green bin on the right of the house to portray the actual scale of things within the image such as the house, similarly Ansel Adams uses shading within the image such as the lighter slow compared to the darkness of the mountain which creates a tone of contrast. These images differ within how they use colour, with Ansel Adams keeping to a grey scale whereas Peter Mitchell has used colours such as brown and green to portray the liveliness of the world, both images give off different stories and different emotions which can be portrayed in colour as Ansel Adams photography creates a more eerie and dimmer tone to create a more melancholy story.