Maurice Van Es

As I used Maurice Van Es’ project “now will not be with us forever” as inspiration and guidance regarding the format of my own responses. The aspects of his project that I show in my own response is mainly the colours and different ways of displaying the images, like collectively grouping the images from photoshoots together and having different zines, that are presented together to show the whole outcomes of my project. Both of mine and his follow a similar colour scheme for the covers of his outcomes, however the colour scheme he followed, the colours are much lighter and colourful, more pastel rather than mine, which are vibrant yet still colourful. This is because I though the vibrancy of them relates to the content of what is revealed on the inside. There are mainly similarities when it comes to the format of the folder as he also produced a small one to gather his prints, the similarities are also seen between the zines as majority of the outcomes he made were also zines. However the differences are between the book outcome I have made as he mostly presented his images in the zines rather than a book. this meant that when it came to sawing and producing the book I couldn’t draw inspiration from him as he didn’t produce one. I also stuck to a theme of titles, but numbering each outcome rather than giving it a title of what may be inside, like he has done.

Ansel Adams

As I analysed Ansel Adams’ work, I wanted to compare my responses to his work against one of his own photographs. I thinks there is a big resemblance on the format of the photograph, this is regarding the subject and colours of my image. when looking at the photographs side by side his has a much grater contrast in the lights and darks of the image, this is due to more sun his picture which dramatized the contrast between the 2 colours, and makes his photograph appear more sublime. regarding my own image it is much darker, with softer tones due to minimal contrast. regarding the format mine is more zoomed out then his. Although my photograph was inspired by Ansel Adams’ work, it might not look exactly like one of the images he produced, however the main topic of romanticism that Ansel Adams explored is visible through my own work. This is evident in the style of the images, not only this one but other landscapes. Especially the prints in black&white.