Artist: Charlie Waite
Born: February 18, 1949-Present
Born: February 18, 1949-Present
Personal Background
Charlie Waite was born in the UK. And was fantasized by the arts. For the first ten years of his career he worked in British Theatre. But after a while he felt that something was missing and went into photography. He loved seeing beautiful landscapes and pieces of architecture. His mentor was actually the very famous landscape photographer, Ansel Adams. He soon became very advanced at the art of taking landscapes. He came out with about 12 great photos a year and it really caught the viewer’s attention. In 2007 he was named Britain’s leading photographer. In 2014, he got an honorary fellowship to Britain’s institute of professional photography.
The past 25 years Charlie Waite has been teaching all over Europe and the U.S. of photography techniques and has been giving lectures to other professional photographers who have there own exhibits all over the world. He is frequently seen on British television for his pieces. In 2016. The Royal Academy of Arts invited him to take part in their exhibition! Today he owns a photography company called Light Land and it is one of Europe’s leading photography companies.
The past 25 years Charlie Waite has been teaching all over Europe and the U.S. of photography techniques and has been giving lectures to other professional photographers who have there own exhibits all over the world. He is frequently seen on British television for his pieces. In 2016. The Royal Academy of Arts invited him to take part in their exhibition! Today he owns a photography company called Light Land and it is one of Europe’s leading photography companies.
Style
The style of Charlie Waite’s photos seem so simple to do but if you think you can recreate them it is truly a difficult task. His beautiful landscapes show a seamless transition to natures’ structures or sometimes just to the endless sky. He depicts patterns in nature and show reflection to show a clear path. His landscapes have the sky accompany the middle ground perfectly with a smooth horizon line. His architecture images are vibrant and filled with color to drop the viewer’s jaw. You get the emotion he wants with his pieces’ desiring qualities. His landscapes how fewer colors but each color covers so much of the image and then turns to a completely different color while still looking perfect in the image. The subject isn’t the quality he focuses on but it is the rest of the area engulfing the subject he want the viewer to spot out.
Philosophy
Charlie Waite’s loves for landscapes is really simple and not complicated in the slightest. Even though he loved theatrical design he loved landscapes even more for their patterns and clever use of shadows. He tries to capture a feeling of serenity in hos photos which in my opinion he does very successfully. He loves how the endless boundaries add to the wonder of how he always wants to be in the places in which he takes the photos. The power of nature is also a key aspect in his photos since it draws the eyes attention right away. Humans see nature all the time but when it is placed in front of you in a creative way filled with color and you can look at it anytime you want. You will become compelled to the sight since the nature we see in our everyday lives will never surpass this inexplicable quality. He uses light as his gateway to create the central component of the photo. After all light is the main element of photography and the amount of light can change the photo’s depth, way it is perceived, and most importantly emotion received. His final message through his landscapes his a human trait. His landscapes how supposed to symbolize a place where someone has been and is an important memory for that person.
Influence
I love how his photos show such vibrant colors in them. In almost all his photos he plays a cool trick with either shadows or reflections. The reflections especially is something I want to give a shot in my photos. The way he makes small details come out to show a texture is something I am amazed by in a landscape. But the texture is far more defined in his architecture images. In these images he has the colors have basically no contrast so they blend together. This way the texture stands out in the images which actually make a lot of sense because texture in architecture is what makes it very enjoyable to look at since each different color in buildings usually means a new kind of texture.
Compare and Contrast
All of Charlie Waite's landscapes were taken in every season other than winter so I had to choose carefully which ones seemed astonishing and do able. His architecture images had a minimalistic design so I decided to try a few. The first image I chose from him was of a curtain in a yellow room. I really liked how his image had the curtain open and it allowed a lot of light enter the room so I just waited for a sunny day to take the photo. I also tried to make the sight outside the window less visible but his image had the window opening facing away from the camera but that wasn’t possible for me since I needed to get the curtain so I tried to just make the image brighter and decreased the contrast. It was such a coincidence that his photo had the room filled with yellow since my bedroom has a very similar color as well. The second image I chose was of bare tree with their reflection appearing at the bottom of the image. The tree was silver bark and he had taken the picture right after a flood had occurred. The image he had taken looked a lot like a reflection with the bottom half darkened to give it the water effect so that is what I did to take the image. I also put dark brown details on the trees signifying them being wet and having view that I was on surface while his image show he takes the images from above. The last image I chose was of a basket resting on top of a ledge behind two makeshift beds. The main reason I chose this image was that the basket was the main contrasting detail of the picture and the big pieces of furniture laid beneath the bottom of the basket. I took different pieces from my house to take these photos. But instead of beds I used dark chairs. I loved the final result. The bench was he main thing that stood different from his mount on the wall but other than that I think I caught most of the elements represented by his image of basket in the room
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