Personal Background: Colby brown is a photographer, author, and a photo educator. He was born in California and works based out of the eastern peninsula. In 2006 Brown picked up his first digital camera and started taking photos. In 2011 he founded The Giving Lens, which is a organization that blends photo education with support for different causes around the world.
Style: Colby Brown's photos embrace many aspects, but his style prioritizes the light and natural beauty of each landscape. When looking at his photos it seems he shows off lighting as a key component and then he uses shadows to expand this idea. Another visual characteristic that's possessed by the photos are, most of them bring out the sunsets from different parts of countries. Philosophy: Brown took pictures, not because he wanted to capture the moments, but because they were after effects of being there. Colby Brown decided to take photos after he created intimate memories in those places. He thought that being alone in nature felt right and the solitude was what drew him into to photography, to capture these rare moments. it reminded him of how everything was connected.
Influences: This artist has influenced my before I had ever heard of Colby Brown, he used to take photos for National Geographic in South Africa. Back years ago, I used to receive these National Geographic magazines and it made me want to travel and take landscape photos, not that they would turn out quite like his.
Obviously both photos are very different, but they both embrace a story and a travel. In Brown's photo he uses shadows to make the man in the boat darker and look like an outline. it was a really good contrast from the bright background to the fisherman's boat.
In these Colby Brown's photo(the left one) focuses on the balance in his sunset photo, so I wanted to recreate that by taking a sunset and waiting till the sun was set in a position that greatly showed a number of colors and this even-like photo. For my photo(the right one), I wanted to highlight the faint sun rays that had appeared during the sun set, kinda like how Brown made the pink clouds his main point.
In these two photos, I acknowledge that they are not in any way similar, but I also think that they have similar properties and concepts like balance and a distinct focal point. In Brown's photo he uses the sunset plus the space directly to the side of it. That's what I tried for this photo, by focusing on the impact the sunset gives, then it makes the land around it have a rosy effect.