Proposal

Proposal

The Genre of photography I chose to do was landscape. I chose landscape because you can do a lot of different things with it such as take pictures of different times of the day.

The photographers that inspired me were Charlie Waite and Peter Watson

Charlie Waite is firmly established as one of the world’s leading Landscape photographers. His photographic style is often considered to be unique, in that his photographs convey an almost spiritual quality of serenity and calm. Charlie's photographs are held in private and corporate collections throughout the world, and he has held numerous solo exhibitions at prestigious venues in the UK, Japan and the USA. I like Charlie Waite’s photography because he mainly shoots in black and white using slow shutter speeds to create very atmospheric images.

Peter Watson is an English landscape photographer whose career started in his teenage years when he photographed and produced his own black & white prints in an improvised darkroom. They were sold in a local gallery and this early success encouraged him to pursue a career as a photographer. He studied art and graphic design and in 1993 obtained a diploma in photography from the New York Institute of Photography. I like Peter Watson’s photography because he shoots just after sunrise rather than mid-day, sunset and night time.

My plan is too take pictures at different times of the day and to also capture some animals in the shots as well because where I am planning to take my images there will be animals. I plan to shoot on Colour Film and Digital because I want to see the difference between the two but mainly I like to shoot on film because of how you can see the grain in the image when you process it in the dark room.

My location for my shoot is Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales because it’s a place I have never been and it looks really nice to photograph for location. I will also be shooting closer to home in Bradford city centre which should act as a contrast to the rural scenes.

At the end of this project I am hoping to have about 8 images that are going to be my final images. I will have some black and white dark room images and some digital images.