For this project, I have chosen to compare and contrast two individual photographs from two different photographers. The photographers I have chosen are Tessa Musgrave and Adiseshan Shankar.

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I have decided to look at architecture for my next genre in photography. I have chosen architecture as it is very different to fashion photography and looks at totally different materials and includes different characteristics. In the early years of photography, few if any photographers were specialists in any area other than commercial portraiture, which was the main area in which a living could be made from the new medium. Early photographers did fairly often photograph buildings, often working from the window of a convenient room rather than at street level.

Many of the images from this era can truly be described as monumental, giving the subjects (including some very fine ancient monuments) a great impression of importance and grandeur. Using large glass plates and making contact prints gave detail and tonality that, although not strictly natural because of the lack of green and red sensitivity of the medium, are of unsurpassed delicacy. Architecture demanded lenses that gave sharpness and linear drawing across the frame, quite different to the needs of portraiture, where softer edges were acceptable if not desirable, and curvature seldom noticeable and high-speed imperative. Buildings would sit still for as long as the photographer needed.

For this project, I have chosen to compare and contrast two individual photographs from two different photographers. The photographers I have chosen are Tessa Musgrave and Adiseshan Shankar.

Photograph one by Adiseshan Shankar interested me because it is a very attractive photograph. The photograph doesn’t really have a large tonal range, as all the tones of colour in the photograph are very similar. The photo only sticks with one colour all throughout, which is why I like this picture. Even thought the photo only consists of blue, it is made up of lots of different shades of blue.

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The lights on the building and around it stand out because they are a bright colour. I think the way the sea blue colour merges into the deep blue/black colour of the background works really well.

The photograph doesn’t really have a story to it, as there isn’t much going on, it doesn’t have energy or any movement to it at all.  However it could easily be a scene used in a film, such as an establishing shot. The photo has a certain peaceful feel to it. It is soothing to look at; this is because it is ...

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