Robert Harding Pittman

Robert Harding Pittman is a really unique photographer who has focused most of his work on a project called "ANONYMIZATION" which is about the development of our world and how some building and structures are not good for the environment and a loss of culture and roots, as well as alienation. What I love so much about Robert's photograph is the simplistic style yet the complex and important meaning behind them. What he photographs is very minimalistic but he always manages to create a interesting and distinctive picture. This interlinks with my title "evidence" and my project "What we leave behind is what we will become" because his pictures are capturing a moment after the event, for example the picture of the dirt tracks.
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Contact Sheet

I decided to show two of my photographs because I thought that the smaller (close3) was a better picture is terms of depth of colour, the high angle and the overall composition. Whereas the larger picture (close2) in my opinion has more features which make it similar to the original photograph. I really like 'close2' because of the tyre tracks coming towards the camera but stop in the piles of mud, just like the original. Lastly 'close3' has tyre tracks to the very top of the picture whereas 'close2' stops and the top is of more piles of mud, also like the original.

Again `i found that I had to show two pictures for copying this original photograph by Robert Harding Pittman. I think it is quite clear that the larger photograph (close2) of mine is a lot similar to the original than the smaller picture (close3) but I personally think that 'close3' is a much nicer photograph for various reasons. I like the way 'close3' is closer to the nails engaging photograph and I also like the slightly darker tone it has to like, I think that 'close2' is bordering being over exposed. In terms of similarity I think that 'close2' definitely beats 'close3', the biggest factor that that I think makes 'close2' closer is that it's zoomed out and makes the nails look smaller like the original. Also the brightness is the same as the original and the whiteness contrasting with the rich orange of the rust.

I contact sheet is quite small for this picture so I didn't have many to choose from. Therefore I did not need to rename any photographs to compare which one was best. Although I did have one distinct photograph which stood out as being very similar, 'DSC_00213' because of the similar low, pointed up, angle and the positioning of the cranes, these two features are the most important about this original adn I think that 'DSC00213' has them. The sky was very similar becuase of the clouds and darkness, I edited this picture in Photoshop and made the sky as blue and bright as possible without ruining the photograph.