Jai Maisel

Jai Maisel

Jai Maisel is an American photographer that has received any award for his achievements over time, such as the Life time achievement award from the American Society of media photographers and the Infinity award from the International Centre of Photography. Maisels work is not at controversial as someone other photographers as he tick to 'safe' things to take pictures of such as buildings, landscape and people. Maisel milt focuses on depth, form colour and tone in his photographs but in all of them it is apparent that he looks for all of the formal elements when taking a photograph.

The first photograph of Jai Maisels i have chosen to write about is the one above. In this image it is obvious that colour, reflection and form are the three most evident formal elements in this picture. I like this photograph as due to the background being very bright colours, the black bird in front of it contrasts well. As well as this this image looks three dimensional as on the right hand side of the wall there is a shadow cast from the left hand side, showing us that part of the wall is further lout that the other part. Another reason why i like this image is that the bird and wall is reflected, so it looks like there is water or a mirror in-between where the two reflections meet.

The second image of Jai Maisels i have selected to write about is this one of a forest skyline. I like this image as it shows most of the formal elements, mainly movement, lines and colour. I like how to lines above the trees are more translucent compared to the solid, dark green colour of the trees, this makes the clouds that are going over the trees look thin so we can tell that it is only a thin cover over the trees. The way the clouds for thin lines above the trees make its look this its moving towards us, so i like this image as it shows the movement of something that is usually ignored or goes unseen.

The third photograph of Jai Maisels i have chosen to write about is this one of white furniture against the white door. In the picture tone and form are the two main formal elements that are most noticeable. I like this photograph a lot as although everything is white, we can see that the things in the picture are all three dimensional due to the shadows formed from the window that looks to be the the right of the photograph. Through the use of form, Maisel is able toake this picture look three dimensional and stop everything from blending in together as everything has a shadow or slightly different tones, so every element of this photograph is noticeable.

The final photograph of Jai Maisel's i have chosen to write about it a skyline of New York, showing the sun and the clouds above it. I like this image as it mainly uses dark colours and there is a point where the bright colour starts and we can see where it spreads to. In this photograph colour and tone have been taken into a lot of consideration, we can see that colour has as there is a very smooth transition between the yellow/white of the sun, to the black and grey of the city below. As well as this   the clouds and the buildings look three dimensional due to the colour tones of them, As the clouds are darker in the centre and to the right than they are the the left, it shows where the sun is hitting them and this look more three dimensional and makes it stand out more against the blue sky.

Summary paragraph and influence;
To summarise, Jai Maisel's work mainly focus on colour and tone as most of Maisel's work is in black or white. As well as colour i like how he uses the lighting to change the tone of his photographs and to add more depth to them.
 Through looking at Jai Maisels work i have become influence into looking at the colour and tones used. In a lot of Jai Maisel's work he uses a small variation of colours and  lot of different tones of the same colour, therefore when we shot for colour, i took a photo that only has different tones of black, white and greys.