Henri Cartier-Bresson

              Photographers today continue to learn from Cartier-Bresson and apply his technique to their photographs. Here are a few suggestions for incorporating Cartier-Bresson's approach into your own photography. Carry a small camera with you at all times, so that you are always ready to capture a spontaneous moment. Put yourself in situations where you feel an emotional connection to the scene. The more connected you are, the more powerful your pictures will be. Shoot images every day. This may seem obvious, but the more you shoot, the better you will get at sensing the perfect moment to click the shutter. Shoot black and white film, or set your digital camera to the black and white setting. Play around with angles and composition in your photographs. Cartier-Bresson's images were often off-center, shot from unexpected angles.

 

Independent Project-Jerry Uelsmann

           Jerry Uelsmann’s most famous technique involves fabricating photographs from unrelated negatives to create scenes such as hands that appear to be growing from a tree trunk. Often he focuses on animals, wildlife, nature, and landscape. His mystical and enigmatic images abound with mystery and symbolism. He believes that it is equally difficult to produce great images no matter what tools you use. “I see the incredible options that Photoshop provides, but the bottom line is the technique has to fit with ideas and images,” he says.

 

Independent Project- Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was a groundbreaking photographer credited with devising the ‘zone system’ technique (a method of concentrating light on negatives to control the look of finished pictures) and the ‘theory of visualization’ (the act of measuring a scene’s light to imagine a finished photo). He is most famously known for his black and white photo series of the Yosemite Valley in California. He also authored many instructional books defining and developing his theories.

Ansel used warm and cold feelings with his photo's. More often then not he used cold colours in his photography for modern nature.

 

Independent Art Projects- Jay Maisel

              Jay Maisel is recognized as one of the top natural-light color photographers in the world. Shooting commercially since the mid 1950's, he has always been considered a purist, not doing any image manipulation and only having dye transfer prints done of his images. Jay maisel's main focus is using patterns, movement, examples of lines, texture, extreme lighting and selective focus