JOE CORNISH

Joe Cornish

Joe was born in Exeter in 1958, he went to reading university and studied art.

His love for the outdoors encouraged him first to pursue travel work, when he first met Charlie Waite in 1986 this helped provide both an important and outgoing source of inspiration friendship and natural cooperation.

Around 1991 he began a working relationship with the national trust photolibrary that still continues to this day.

The North York moors are Joes personal favourite place, he also likes other outstanding landscapes of northern England and these are all a source of inspiration for Joe and not too far away.

He also has a deep affinity for Scotland’s magnificent coast and mountains and he has travelled widely throughout the UK for the National trust, specialising in particular on the coastline.

Joe has continued to be involved in books, having contributed heavily too many National Trust publications, especially coast and countryside published in 1996.

His first book as an author was first light a landscape photographers art 2002 now is in it firth printing.

More recently he wrote and photographed Scotland’s coast photographer’s journey and shot the pictures for Urbino, (a hill town in central Italy) a rare departure into architectural photography.

In 1999 Joe started Joegraphic with designers Joni and Joe Essex, a business devoted to producing a range of cards and calendars. This has since grown and its now developing into “Joe Cornish Galleries “ as a trademark it includes the production of limed edition prints two galleries and embraces a publishing programme that also features the work of other fine photographers.

Joe has given lectures on landscape photography throughout the UK and as far New Zealand.

He is also coming to Burton Collage on the 8/12/2010 to give a lecture on landscape so it will be nice to meet him and hopefully learn from him.

DRYSTONE WALL, WINTER DAWN

A sharp frost can create a myriad of opportunities, and this drystone wall had the remnants of the previous day's frost intact on its north side.

BEACH PEBBLES, FLADDABISTER, SHETLAND

The pebbles are wet and make this photo look sharp and clean and the colours stand out.

FERNS AND RANSOMS

Soft shadowless lighting avoids excessive contrast.

DARK DAY LIGHT, RANNOCH MOOR

The shape and rhythms of the land are on a grand scale and the composition is intended to reflect this.

The river makes you follow it with your eyes.

DARK SUN RISING, SOUND OF RAASAY

Shooting it to the sun is normally a technical disaster, but here the clouds are thick enough to risk it.

SUMMER EVENING ABOVE SWAINBY

The success of the picture owes almost everything to the sky.

OFFSHORE SQUALL, WEST PIER, WHITBY

The causeway makes your eyes follow it and makes you focus on the sky as well.

ST MARY'S LIGHTHOUSE

A mellow evening light and the encroaching tide have softened the hard angularity of the foreground rocks in this composition.

Tim Flach

Tim Flach is well recognised both in America and Europe for his work on Animals and their relationship with the environment in which they live.

He was born in London and also studied communications design between 1977 and 1980. He then studied painted structures and photography at central Saint Martin’s college of art between 1982 and 1983.

His work on animals and their relationship with the environment have been exhibited in several places in America. He has also exhibited his fine art work in London.

His work has been recognised by many organisations and journals and over the years has won numerous awards in the photography world in several countries including France the USA and England.

His work has also featured in many magazines and publications including the National Geographic and Sunday Times Magazine.

Between 2002 and 2005 he was a director of the association of photographers. He has remained a member and has judged many competitions including Hasselblad Master and Wildlife Photographer of the year run by the National History Museum in London.

His career has also included lecturing in many British universities as well as giving talks on photography in Moscow, Dubai, Shanghai in China.

He has most recently published (September 2010) his second book which studies human/ animal friendships.

I like his work because he takes pictures of parts of animals like their nose, tail leg ect not just the whole body like a traditional picture.

Statement of intent 208 Theme 1

Candidate name:-                                      Charlotte Allen
Theme:-                                                    Nature
Title of the theme:-                                   Farm life

Intentions/purpose of the photography to be undertaken

I want to take 10 images of the outdoors this will include animals, wildlife and landscape.
When taking the photos i wish to improve my photography skills.
I want to learn how to use rule of thirds, colour, shapes, composition, frames, focal point, tonal range, texture, form and perspective properly and include these in my photos.


Reasons for selection of theme (including inspiration from the work of others)

I enjoy being outdoor , i like photographing animals and landscape, so i would like to incorporate them together.
I have been brought up on a farm and enjoy photographing farm animals so i would like to include some images in this area.
The person who has inspired me in is Charlie Waite who i have already studied.
I also am interested in Scotland as my brother is a farmer on the boarders and the countryside and buildings are so stunning there. The person who has inspired me in this area is Jonathan Chritchley his work is in black and white i would also like to attempt this in my photography.

The photo imaging equipment and medium that will be used and why

I have got a Canon powershot S5 IS 8.0 mega pixels with a 4 gb sansdis. Unfortunately i can not change the lens on this camera so hopefully i will be able to borrow a camera of my fathers friend this is a Canon EOS 450d with a Sigma DC 18 - 200mm 1:3 .5 - 6.3 lens.
I would like to buy a new camera but at the moment don't really know what i want and don't want to just go out and buy the first thing i see, i would like to learn first what i want to get out of the camera.
As i am shooting outdoor i will take an umbrella with me and cloths to clean the lens just in case the English weather decides to rain.
I would also like to invest in a tripod which will keep the camera nice and still and will produce a sharper picture.

I have now been out and brought a new camara its a canon 550 d with a ef-s 18 - 55 and a canon EF 70 - 300 f/4-5.6 is lens.

Techniques that will be used and how they will help convey the visual message

Close up shots or the use of a telescopic lens to define detail and caricature of the subject.
Black and white to make objects/subjects to stand out.
The use of depth of field to draw the attention to subjects.
Try different levels of light to get different prospectives of the landscape.
Try different times of the day for different lights.
Change the ISO settings and shutter speed on the manual settings on my camera.

How light quality can be used to help convey the visual message

Sunny and bright if possible
Overcast weather might help with the black and white work.
Try different times of the day to experiment with light to create different moods.
Try changing the ISO settings and the shutter speed to get the best out of the camera.

Safety considerations

1) Be aware of the environment around you.
2) when photographing animals take someone with you to watch your back in case the animals become territorial as you are in there environment
3) If going alone always let someone know where you are going and a estimated time for your return.
4) When in the countryside make sure all equipment and litter is taken with you as this could be eaten by animals or spoil the environment.
5) Be aware of where you are going don't go on to private land as this could upset and offend people.
6) Be careful when taking out and putting away all your equipment this is not a danger to yourself or others but could damage your equipment if care is not taken.

Jonathan Chritchley

Jonathan Chritchley was born in Wimbledon London, but since 1998 lives in the south west coast of France.

Jonathan specialises in ocean photography, he says his fascination for the sea was because at the age of 14 he moved to the coastal town of Leamington a place renowned for sailing.

Jonathan's work is simple and mystical with his work being in black and white it looks Eire and sharp which makes you focus on a certain object or point. With using black and white you can create more atmosphere and makes objects sharper as the is no colour that draws you away form the subject/objects you are photographing.

Jonathan chooses to work with low light and when the weather is not at its best, he uses long exposure to create an almost impressive view of his subject.

A part of Jonathan's work is a collection called sails featuring historic sailing yachts from around the world he captures his images by both from the water on a speed boat, and from the air in a 2 man helicopter.

I have chosen these pictures because they are of Scotland which is a country that is close to my heart.

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 This is one of his sails collection

I also have chosen some of horses again being in black and white makes the picture so simple, Sharpe and clear.

Even though you have not got the horses head or body in this picture you can straight away know what it is and the textures look so real as if you could stroke it.

This is so simple but so effective, rule of thirds is present, the use of light is good makes it look like the sun is rising.

I like this picture because you get the sense of speed, the use of light that reflects of the horses backs, also the rule of thirds is present in this picture.

CHARLIE WAITE

I have decided to study Charlie Waite as one of my photographers, I have been watching the TV program  “how to take a stunning picture” on channel five on a Tuesday evening (www3.fivetv/stunning_pictures/episodes ) He was the landscape photographer in series 3  and I really enjoyed and liked his work and his techniques.

One of the things that I really liked was the idea of taking a frame with you when shooting your photos, Charlie called this a “composition aid” it’s a piece of black card with a hole in the middle to view and imagine your photo even before you have taken your camera out of the bag, I am going to make one of these so I can do the same thing with my photos.

Charlie waite was born in 1949 and worked in British theatre and television for the first 10 years of his professional life. Charlie began his career as an actor and stage assistant, but later switched to photographing actors instead. He soon realised he enjoyed this a lot more and carried on with the photography.

Charlie uses fine grain transparency film, graduated filters and often polarizing filters. The images are drum scanned and then printed by Charlie himself as IRIS prints on fine art paper. “This procedure ensures that the depth and details in the picture are optimally transferred “ .

He is particularly noted for his square format images using a 6x6 frame.

Charlie is a great believer in waiting for the right light and weather; he says “bad weather leaving home great weather arriving on location”. He says wait for the weather look over your shoulder and look to see if the is a break in the clouds and if the is just get ready to take the perfect shot.

Charlie has published 27 books in the uk and Europe all exclusively of his own photography. He also enjoys and encourages other photographers this is seen in one of his books “landscape photographer of the year collection 2 “, the landscape photographer of the year awards was the brain child of Charlie waite. The photos were judged by a panel of judges including Charlie.

Charlie is described in books, TV and on the Internet as one of the most celebrated international landscape photographer. He uses colour and black and white in his work.

These are some of my favorite pictures that Charlie Waite has taken.