SECONDARY RESEARCH- John Blakemore

John Blakemore Research 
 John Blakemore is known for his landscape photography. He was born 15th July 1936 in Coventry. Some significant event which happen in his life was the war in 1939, he also served as an RAF nurse from 1954-1956. In 1970 he first got into landscape photography this was when he moved to Derby to begin teaching.
From 1971 he started to only use a 5x4 camera and simplified equipment. He solely uses a 180mm Symmar S lens for both landscape and still life. This was because it is high quality and large pixels. So the standard of his work is high. This camera is a large format and involves black and white film.

I like this photo because it relates to the kind of work I have produced and would like to similar kind of work to this. These photos inspire me to create this misty by using long exposure and filters in order to lengthen the time the shutter is open for by minimising the light entering the lens.
I like the composition of the image with large rock scattered from the foreground to the background. I also like the small pebbles in the foreground in the left corner. I like the way they are visible and then seem to disappear as the water runs over it.


This image uses a slow shutter speed in order to capture the movement of the water. I like the detail on the rocks as it show the waters run over it. There is a misty effect as the water is constantly flowing over the rocks. I would suspect that this is a section of a waterfall as the water doesn't appear to stop. This photo uses black and white and the technique of a slow shutter speed to capture the movement of water.

I will use this research into John Blakemore to develop my long exposure technique to create work that replicate a similar effect and expand on my long exposure experimentation. I will go to a fast flowing waterfall to replicate the long exposure effect that he uses. By using a waterfall instead of the coastline means that it is a more reliable source to create these effects like the ones the Blakemore uses.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/john-blakemore-the-stilled-gaze
https://www.johnblakemore.co.uk/collections/tulips-still-life
http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/blakemore-john-1936
https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/03/master-photographer-john-blakemore/

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