Marcus McAdam is a photographer from Scotland who focuses more on the landscape and that which surrounds him. His photographs are very high contrasting, containing many colours, but mostly the prime colours stand out above the rest. As you see in the photographs below, his eye for the land is very trained, as the curves and lines all converge on each other, and this really draws the eye and allows you to skim the page with there always being something to look at; This could be the fine detail of a cloud sailing across the sky, or the shimmering of the mountainside within a lake. As I have been inspired by McAdam, I have planned a trip to Scotland for a week to see if i can emulate some of his photographs; Maybe try to capture some of the immense landscape photographs he's taken.
Another artist I will be using is Brandon Seidler. He uses the film that has his photographs of the landscape on, and dips or sprays them with corrosive or staining liquid. This gives a really awkward look to the photograph as it's supposed to be a really serene setting, with lots of positive colours, but instead he's caused the image to look negative by using blood reds and darker colours.
Below are some photographs I have taken from my trip to Scotland. They are based on both themes taken from McAdam and Seidler, that theme being bright and positive colours. When I was at Fort William, the sun hardly showed it's face, so the photographs taken by McAdam were hard to emulate as I couldn't get any that were bright, but I did take some that have a lot of positive colours in, which I can still use to combine the two styles together. As I took my photographs with a digital camera and not an analogue camera, I will not be able to do the exact effect Seidler has done, as he used acids and other chemicals to corrupt his photographs. Instead, I shall be flicking negative coloured paints (Reds, blacks, browns, etc...) onto a sheet of A4 paper, scanning it onto the computer, and then putting that over the top of my photographs in Photoshop.
The photographs below are my final products of the above photographs combined. I changed the levels round to make the scenery brighter and the blood red darker, as this creates a more contrasting environment, and also makes both landscape and blood stand out that little bit more.
Here are the contact sheets for this themed shoot:
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