Reading Response #1

As landscape and nature photography are two disciplines I really enjoy shooting, I really enjoyed reading these assigned articles. Looking first at the transcribed interview with Bryan Schutmaat and his photo-series, Grays The Mountain Sends, I really enjoy and appreciate the work that went into telling his story. I find it really interesting how Schutmaat used a wide variety of photography styles such as nature and portrait to capture the emotions wanted in the series. Relating this reading back to the work we’ve done in class to date, I really enjoyed the workshop and demo on single light portrait photography. Portraits are always something I’ve wanted to learn how to shoot well using artificial light and I’m glad I now know how to. The reading also reminded me of home slightly as I grew up in a farming community in small-town Northern Ontario in a village that is past its glory years as the towns shot at in the series.

Looking at the second article about Reshaping Robert Adams’ Landscape, I once again really enjoyed the variety in his photo series­. I am most likely incorrect, but I feel like it is not very often you see a single theme photo series with such variety. You have portraits, landscape shots, nature shots, civilization, etc. Another aspect I like about this photo series is its proximity to our location. A majority of the photos were shot in Colorado and in places that I have visited. One thing that would be very nice would be to know the exact locations of where the photos were taken in order to compare them to what we would see today.

The photos I included are all photos (and two videos) that I have either taken or are related to me in some way that these readings reminded me of. I couldn’t decide on five so I included a few more.