Research- Tom Lowe

Moving away from water photography, I have decided to choose a photographer thats work is quite unbelievable. Tom Lowe's photography ranges from landscape photography to astronomy photography. It's his astronomy photography that inspires me the most.

Thomas is currently a student at the Brooks Institute of photography based in California. He shoots a number of different types of photography. He states that photography is great because there in no limit that one can achieve with a camera.

Like I have stated earlier in this blog it is his astronomy photography that inspires me. When I say astronomy photography I mean pictures of the galaxy and night sky taken from the ground.

Blazing Bristlecone

This is my favourite image that actually made me want to research Tom Lowe. The Blazing Bristlecone shot is a picture of the night sky which quite obviously on a very clear night. The picture shows many of the galaxies stars and even the milky way. This photograph is absolutely stunning and it also won an award for an earth and space photography competition. I like the way he has managed to get the lighting perfect. I know that because it's dark and the night sky is bright that it was going to be easy to get the light right but the way that Tom has the light is just perfect for the shot. He manages to get the background trees looking like shadow and the tree at the front of the shot in a dark light. This enables the viewer to be more drawn to the night sky with the background still looking magnificent.

Ancient Sky

This is also one of Tom Lowe's awsome photographs. Again he has taken a picture of the night sky with trees in the foreground. The colour and lighting in this photograph in this photograph again are faultless. The way he has done it is that so you concentrate on the background (Night Sky) whilst still making the foreground look perfect.

Milky Way Behind Sierras Lake

The finla picture I have chosen from Tom Lowe's work is again a photograph of the night sky in all it's beauty. With the stars and the milky way easily visible Tom has managed to create a perfect photograph. He has also managed to get the reflection of the stars from the lake to create an even better photograph. As you can see when Tom does this type of photography he likes to have something in the foreground instead of taking a picture directly up into the night sky. This is brilliant as he manages to get different types of objects and landscapes into the shot. Even though they look like a shadow because of it being night time they fit perfectly into the photograph because of all the natural colours from the night sky.

So in conclusion I feel that Toms work is fantastic, showing off what is all around us and even adds our landscape around us from earth into his photographs making them look perfect to blend in with the night sky and galaxy.