Late fall 2012 I set up my gear on the banks of the Danube at the hydropower station in Ulm. My idea was to convey three things:  Different view, different take, different mood. 

Matthew G. Beall Photography  Ulm, Dam  Through the Lens    2013

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Ulm, Dam  Gritty Mood     2013

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Ulm, Dam  Different View      2013

Matthew G. Beall Photography      Down the River       2013

Ansel Adams is often on my mind. Two quotes of his that speak volumes.

You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

 Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. - Ansel Adams

Matthew G. Beall Photography       Alps        2009/2011

The Big Five

Light and Shadow = mood

 

Contrast = attention

 

Shape and Form = interest

 

Pattern = interest

 

Texture = emphasis

 

  The QUALITY of light affects the mood of the photograph.

 

Matthew G. Beall Photography
The Old Cemetery in Ulm
2013

 

 

 

 

 

 Black & White Photography

Working with light and shadows in the late afternoon on a fall day.

Love the Light

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Wonderful Light   2013

A fine art photographer makes a photograph by interpreting what the reality of a subject will be.   

Matthew G. Beall

Photography is one form of visual language. When I use this language I am expressing, through light, form and color, my vision of the reality of the subject. 

 

Matthew G. Beall Photography    Landscape Visualized    2011

In my previous post, A Rocky Shore Caught in Black and White, I presented new photographs of Monterey. And now the next two of  Rocky Shore Monterey.

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Rocky Shore Monterey 3    2013

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Rocky Shore Monterey 4    2013

Two new pieces of my California. How I miss it. 

Continuing the Fiction of Nature: California Central Coast Series.

And check out: Central Coast Long(ing)

Time caught stretched 

the ebb and flow of the sea 

on a rocky sandy shore

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Rocky Shore Monterey 1    2013

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Rocky Shore Monterey 2   2013

Further to my point in my previous post,  A story about a visit to Carmel, California and the ignorant gallery employee,  Alan Ross talks about prints and how they were made.