1. ANSEL ADAMS
Ansel Adams was an American photographer who is best known for his black and white photographs of
Western America. The category that his photographs best fall into is nature and landscape. Although not all of
his photographs are landscape, they still have a taste of it and a definite feeling of nature.
Adams uses a large format camera for his photographs so that they create extremely sharp focused images
which then allow him to blow them up to much larger sizes, also a lot of his pictures are in black and white.
For example, this photograph is quite a close up shot and even though it
isnt a landscape it still portrays and links the idea. 
Adams' work has many different purposes. From a commerical side of
printing his photographs in calendars and postcards to also selling original
prints. His photography also helped to open National Parks. People could
see that nature was changing through Adams photographs, it was
becoming difficult to find nature without any man made features and so
National Parks were opened to protect wildlife and nature.
One thing that Ansel Adams does with his photographs is that he portrays
meaning and gives us something to think about. This is another one of Adams
photographs. This landscape photograph also has a theme of nature, however
for me personally when i first looked at it it gave me the feeling of peace and
relaxation. I could see this through the light underneath the dark sky, as
though the grave yard and the sky had a connection of peacefulness. Looking
at this picture several more times it also has a very eery feeling due to again
the graveyard and the dark sky. Whichever way you look at this photograph it
still has the idea of nature.

2. TOM JENKINS
Jenkins started being a professional sports photographer in 1989. For the vast majority of the time since he has
worked for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers. Of the many international events he has covered probably
the 5 World Cups and 3 Olympics stand out as the highlights.
For this photograph Jenkins would have used a slow shutter
speed lense, the reason being for this is that also you can see
the biker it actually captures the movement, you can see the
air and force that is given off the bike. The camera would
have also had a large lense that would be able to zoom in and
capture a clear shot.
For this photograph a fast shutter speed lense has
been used as the people in the foreground
(especially Kelly Holmes) are very clear and visible
and the background is blurred. This shows us that
the focal point and what we ‘want’ to see is the
winner of this race. This also allows the camera to
capture every small detail.

3. RANKIN
Rankin covers a few different categories, them being: Portrait, which are mostly celebrity portraits, fashion and
style. Nearly all of the photographs Rankin takes are in a studio. He also takes photographs of specific genres such as
hair, beauty, lingerie and sport which are all for advertisement purposes.
The purpose of his photographs are generally for advertisement, fashion and magazines.
PORTRAIT ADVERTISEMENT
This portrait photograph of Adele, This is one of Rankins advertisement photographs, again it is identified
like most of Rankins work has been as being one of Rankin’s works as it is in a studio, with an infinity wall to
taken in a studio. A strong light and produce an even background. There is bright lighting and strong make
heavy make up has been used and up. It is a very high fashion shoot, the models hair, make up, clothes and
also a wind machine to create even pose suggest this. Also we know it is for an advertisement as when
some interest in the way her hair the photograph has been edited ‘THOMAS WYLDE’ has been printed onto
lies. It is very posed, as her lips it and the model is clearly holding one of his bags which gives a focus
are pouted and her eyes are very point and we know what the photograph is selling.
fixed.