Comparison of Poltis and David Wilson

Both of these people are modern day, black and white photographers. Wilson looks at landscapes, rust, emotion of space in mainly Wales or Britain etc where as Poltis looks at architecture, abandoned places, graffiti in America, England etc.

Both of these artists could link as Wilson looks at loneliness and abandoned things in a different context where you have to think about it and the hidden message such as rust, decay where as Poltis is more obvious such as houses, locations.

Both of their styles believe in strong compositions, I think Poltis more than Wilson as he looks at close ups and the documentation of life as he has interests in so many themes where as Wilsons photos look at the emotion of space with landscapes and little composition. This makes the photo look more lonely, deserted etc. Even though Wilsons images are black and white, exposure is really important to him as in black and white cloudy/stormy weather can look really dynamic and harsh. The weather is also like pathetic fallacy, the weather can make the mood of a picture and what it is trying to portray/give out to the audience.

Poltis focusses on many things with the world, he considers weather when appropriate but mainly focuses on the composition and depth of field in a image. The structure of his photos are really important to him too as they can give a unique impression and be eye catching as their different. Depending if it's a close up or mid close up his angles and structure of a photo are thought about to create a filled up composition.

I think with Poltis, he could improve on his techniques with the weather, sometimes it's appropriate for a certain image but a lot of the landscape images have plain white weather whereas Wilson always thinks about the weather. Wilson could improve his images by thinking of angles as some of his images are taken at a normal eye view but a photo of he has taken is of a group of birds flying away but I think if it was taken maybe at a low angle it would make the photo even more thrilling and energetic. Unless the photo is meant to give off a relaxed feel showing the independant of birds and how the world is at their feet. But because of the weather behind it and the vignette style, to me it comes across not that way.