Tales by Light 4-6

In episodes 4-6 my favorite photographer was Peter Eastway when he took pictures of the landscapes of South Georgia. I really liked his photos and the way he edited them to make them unique to his style. I also really liked his photos of the animals that lived there and in Antarctica. I think the places he chose to photograph were really pretty and filled with history. It was also really cool to learn from a photographer that takes pictures of something that I would like to photograph later on.

My favorite place that he photographed was South Georgia. I thought the landscape was really beautiful and I really liked the ruins he photographed. I think his photos along with Richard l’Anson’s photos, really tell a story of the history that took place before the photos were taken. I really liked his idea to take panorama photos of the landscape and animals there. It was cool to see a new way of photographing landscapes. I especially liked the photos he took here because of the vivid colors. In my photos, I like to have bright colors and I think that is the reason I am so drawn to these images and this location.

Something that I learned from these episodes was that so many people can take a picture of something, but the way you edit it makes it yours and unique to all of the other photos taken. I also learned that sometimes the best photos you take are the ones you hadn’t planned on getting. For example, when Art Wolfe photographed the tribes sitting on the mountain, he had hoped to get a photo of their silhouettes against the sunset but a cloud came and took away that option, he got an even better photo of them. Something else that I learned from Art Wolfe in particular was that when you have a subject that is really complicated by itself, you should have a simple background so that the background doesn’t take away from the beauty and intricacy of the subject.  Another thing was that you should always try new angles to get better photos. Art Wolfe showed this in both the episodes “Wild” and “Tribes” when he put his camera on a remote-control car and put it in with the lions and when he had to the tribes stand around him while he was laying down. Something I didn’t like was that a lot of Art Wolfe’s photos were staged in “Tribes”. I would have rather seen candid photos of the tribes performing rituals or getting the paint put on them.

Overall I thought these episodes showed more of what I would like to photograph later on in my career. Landscape and animal photos really seem to interest me and Art Wolfe and Peter Eastway were great photographers to learn from.