With my upcoming trip to london next month, iv been looking more at urban landscape photographers. I found Richard Graham Photography very interesting specifically the London photos he does (altho i have included some of his New York work as well). All of his London images are in black and white, something iv always been interested in. If there is no colours then the viewer is drawn to the shapes instead. Colours tend to distract from image.
I intend to take photos in black and white down in london. Post process them later on in photoshop.
I realize a lot of the photos i may take down there could possibly fall under the category of architecture. This being dew to the amount of buildings in London. The photos i have included here from Richard's work are of both architecture, and landscape. I do like the idea of photographing architecture, particularly older buildings. So if i am able to somehow incorporate this into my landscape photos then i will be happy.
I like Richard's image of the Thames with the London Eye, along with Big Ben in the background. The water is in the lower third of the photograph, then the bridge on top of that with The London Eye to the far left of the image. Then Big Ben is in the centre of the image, which is relatively small, dew to it being a lot further away than the London Eye. The photo could of been taken on a gloomy day because of it being turned into a black and white image. You don't necessarily need to wait around till sunset, or get up for the sunrise to get an image like this, because all the colour has been taken out, so its difficult to tell which time of day it is. Its more the shapes and contrast in the image that the person is dawn to. The first thing i noticed in this picture was the London Eye dew to it being the most dominant part of the image, it stands taller than the rest of the buildings on the horizon. My eye then travels right along the bridge to Big Ben, in the middle of the photo.
Another of his photos which i like is the one of Millennium Bridge, with St Paul's in the background. My eye follows the bridge from left to right, then ending on St Paul's in the background. I also noticed that there is no clouds in the sky, which if there were may be distracting from the two main subjects.
Iv seen quite a few photos of St Paul's, and the Millennium Bridge most of which were taken a night, which i think look really stunning.
This is something else which i hope to be able to try when I'm down there, id like to take a photo of the Thames at night, with the London Eye in the background all lit up. I don't yet have a tripod ( if i did, i don't fancy trekking it with me all round London) so i will try to rest the camera on a ledge over looking the river, and use a remote shutter release to activate the shutter, so not to blur the image with camera shake.
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ReplyDeleteWe will have to look through your images to see which post production technique works best for them.
Can you have them all ready for thurs along with your criteria in place as regards the final run in.
steve