Artist Emulation

As a photography student at Spain Park, we had to emulate an artist. I chose Jeremy Turner, a landscape photographer. The following text is about this artist, and an example of his work. The three pictures after this are my pictures emulating him.

Jeremy Turner

Turner was born in England, but was raised in Australia. After he finish school, he had jobs that varied from being a painter to working in a photo-processing lab. He has also studied classical piano. He decided to spend time traveling-he did a long-distance cycle touring in Europe. He fell in love with the outdoors, and picked up landscape photography. He took a second trip to New Zealand for four months. Once he got back to Sydney, he got his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry, and then received his PhD in molecular biology. Then he worked as a Post-Doctoral research guy, first in Sydney, then at the University of New South Wales. His love for photography really grew as he went around New Zealand, and while studying. He has been inspired by many landscape photographers. Names like Ansel Adams and the Westons. Australian and New Zealand artist include Peter Dumbrovskis, Peter Lik, Nic Bishop, Craig Potton, Peter Jarver, and Pete Dobre. He now lives in Canberra near many National parks like Morton and Croajingolong National Parks. His hope is that people will see his work, and have a better attitude toward our planet.
He has many clients, from companies to private collectors worldwide. Some are the HildenDesign company in Germany, Freeman Productions and Calorma-he takes photos for calenders, and ICBO conference photographer.
His publications are awards are the following:
Smart Photography- Landscape Photography Special (7 pages plus cover)2006
Kodak Reader Portfolio in Photography Internationa1993
Runner-up Award in Photography International Theme Competition-Reflections 1994

He has had exhibitions at the following places:
Radford Celebrates Art, Canberra 2007
Star City Casino, Sydney 2006.

Tree

I'm not as big of a fan of this one, like I am for the other two. I did a levels and curves adjustment to brighten the photo. I really don't like that there were no clouds in the sky, and now the sky is really boring. However, I like the subject. I cropped it in a lot to help get rid of some of the distracting stuff in the foreground. I sharpened it and the end.

Rain Drops

I ran a curves adjustment so the picture would have more contrast. I also did a levels adjustment, along with turning it black and white. I cropped it a good bit because there was some stuff in the foreground that was distracting. I sharpened it, and you can see the rain drops that are on everything!

Pride Rock

I took this over spring break while on the AT. I adjusted the hue/saturation, then I did a curves adjustment. I turned it black and white, sharpened, and cropped it. Mr. Myers hurt my feelings because he couldn't believe I took this.

Coke

I did a curves adjustment and a photo filter. I cropped it in a lot and sharpened it.

Wall

I did a curves and levels Adjustment. I also cropped it in some.

Federal

I did a photo filter and a contrast adjustment. I tilted it and cropped it in. Finally, a sharpened it.

Snow Flower

I took this for dead, dying, or dormant. I sharpened it and did a curves adjustment. I also cropped it in some.

Bone

I took this for the dead, dying, and dormant. I did a curves adjustment, but I did a layer mask on the adjustment. I painted it black at the center of the photo because it was too bright. The only other thing that I did was crop.