The document analyzes landscape photographs by three photographers - Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, and Adam Burton. It provides details on each photographer's style and background, and analyzes specific photos in terms of location, composition, use of color and black and white, depth of field, and potential post-processing techniques. The photos discussed were taken between the early 1900s and 2008 and showcase a range of landscape subjects and styles across the three photographers.

1. Adam Green
ANALYSIS OF LANDSCAPE
PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKS

2. Ansel Adams was a landscape
photographer. He is most well known
for his black-and-white landscape
photographs taken in western America.
Adams took his first photographs in
1916, but it was not until 1930 that he
wanted to become a professional
photographer.
The images I am going to annotate are
from 1941 and 1942.
ANSEL ADAMS

3. This photograph is taken in a
rural location of decay. The
buildings are ruined, and the area
is deserted. The photograph was
taken in the early 1900’s,
therefore the photograph is
captured with film. The
photograph is also black and
white. The mood is rather dull, as
the contrast is low and
everything looks old and
desolate. Due to the age, it was
not possible for any
manipulation to have occurred.
ANSEL ADAMS

4. This photograph (like most (if not all)
of Adam’s works) was taken in western
America. The photograph was taken
on film. The photograph has a lot of
depth to it; there is a large distance
from the nearest point to the furthest
point. The contrast is much higher
with this one, allowing us to see more
depth, and makes the photograph
more visually appealing.
ANSEL ADAMS

5. Galen Rowell was a wilderness
photographer. Born in 1940, he is
most well known for portrait oriented
colorful landscape photographs.
Rowell became a professional
photographer in 1972, and used his
interest in the wilderness to take
interesting photographs.
He died in 2002.
GALEN ROWELL

6. This photograph was taken in Bear
Creek Spire, of California.
The photograph has a beautiful range of
colours, ranging from dark greys, bright
oranges, and a range of greens. The
image is taken from a low vantage point.
This way we capture a lot of the grass,
and less of the sky, which is not as
interesting.
The image has a lot of depth to it, there
is a large distance from the foreground
to the background, meaning a small
aperture was used.
GALEN ROWELL

7. This photograph was taken in
Patagonia, Chile. The photograph has
a middling vantage point. We can see a
lot of the greenery at the lower half
of the photograph. And yet we can
also see the the sky in great detail. The
mountains in the background are very
interesting because of their colour.
Everything in the frame is in focus,
meaning a small aperture would be
required.
GALEN ROWELL

8. Adam Burton is a landscape
photographer from the United
Kingdom. He has been a professional
landscape photographer since 2008.
He is self taught, and has done so
since 2001.
Burton favours rich colours of dusk,
where natural light is the most
interesting.
ADAM BURTON

9. Burton has used reflection from the
water to create a fantastic landscape.
The horizon has been centered, in order
to make it look like it has been mirrored.
The image has likely been edited in
Photoshop, however, only to change
levels, brightness etc.
Again, a slow shutter speed has been
used to capture the fog in a blurry way.
ADAM BURTON

10. This photograph is named
“The Dragons Teeth”. As we
can see there is a very high
dynamic range to it. We can see
numerous of the dark parts in
great detail, yet we can see the
sky in very good detail.
The colour is also rather
dynamic. There is a high range
of colours. There is potentially
some Photoshop in place,
however a lot of the mist
would have been captured via
slow shutter speed.
ADAM BURTON