Research - Ansel Adams

I was given Ansel Adams’ landscapes book a few Christmases ago and was looking through it recently when I saw some of these photographs. I really like his use of composition with the majority of the image showing the sky, it reminds me loosely of my 2^nd time lapse; which shows a hotel as the sun goes down. 

I like the images and think that the high contrast black and white makes the photographs really strong. I don't think that the use of black and whit would suit my work as I feel that the colours are important and the saturation of my images makes them stronger. Adams’ work is based in west America, specifically California and New Mexico.

This photograph moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico is one of my favourites. I really like that my eye is drawn straight to the moon, then the clouds and eventually down to the settlement bellow, its like I'm putting nature first.