Unit 57: Photography and Photographic

Practice Research of other

photographers work

Charlie Waite

Charlie Waite is an English landscape photographer born in 1949. Charlie Waite is particularly noted for his painterly approach in using and shade. Before Charlie Waite was a photographer he worked in television and theatre for 10 years.

Examples of photographs

These images are both very typical of Charlie Waite because they both have a point in the photograph that attracts the viewers attention. Most of the time this being a path or highly contrasted part of the image. Charlie Waite seems to use the brightness and contrast of the photograph to determine the time of year in the image.

The image on the right is taken in France and is the Ardennes Canal. The image on the left is taken in England and is Cranbourne House.

About Waite’s Photographs

CompositionCharlie Waite photographed landscapes so therefore he used a large variety of positions and angles in his images to achieve different perspectives. Waite used the colours in his photographs to help the viewer understand his thinking behind the image.

“Quote by Charlie Waite”

“I often think of that rare fulfilling joy when you are in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events. Where the light, the colour, the shapes, and the balance all interlock so perfectly that I feel truly overwhelmed by the wonder of it”

Techniques usedWhen Waite photographs a landscape he was most likely to use a very fast shutter speed to ensure he didn’t have any blur in the shot he was taking and also to capture subjects such as birds clearly in his images. Waite positions his photographs so that there is a main focal point for the viewers attention to be caught by. Many of Waite’s photographs are very complex and have a lot happening in each of them, this is why I think he always seemed to make a point in the picture stand out.

The style of Charlie Waite is solely landscape photographs, he is most well known for his landscapes in England however he did take numerous photographs in France and Italy. Waite’s photographs seem to be very brightly coloured or very dark, some of his pictures such as the one above on the left show both bright and darks colours and contrasts.

Strengths & WeaknessesI think Charlie Waite’s photographs are very interesting. This is the type of photography that I enjoy doing. The part of Charlie Waite’s photographs I would be most likely to interpret in to my own work is the way he uses focal points to make his photographs unique and interesting. I also like how he uses different brightness and contrasts to again make one part of a photograph more prominent than the other less important parts of the image. I like Charlie Waite’s type of photography and I would happily use any of his techniques in my work. In my opinion I don’t think Charlie Waite has any weaknesses.

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