And analysed what is represented and communicated in the Photograph.
In autumn 1857, Fenton traveled to the small village of Bettws-y-Coed, in North Wales. Nearby Fenton found the subjects of some of his finest landscape photographs.
"I passed over [the Pont-y-Pair] to the opposite bank … and took my station upon one of the rocky projections looking up the river. It was some time since any rain had fallen, and the stream was comparatively shallow, exposing the rude masses of granite that stood midway in the channel, and laying bare to their foundations the broad deep chasms which the rushing waters had formed in their headlong descent."
Fenton wanted to represent a description of the place written in Thomas Roscoe's guidebook - Wandering + Excursions in North Wales 1853. He stood at the same place where the description was written in order to get the same viewpoint. - Dynamic Structure
Visual Elements - Composition; Water centred on the photograph surrounded by the rocks trees almost fills the top third of the image ; cut it off to draw more attention to the falls.
Visual Choices;
- Focusses on falls and surroundings of rocks
- Close distance
-Natural Lighting - Location mid-day
- F16 - 6 Second exposure (approx)
- Tripod backed up against wall by footpath - level with the top of the rocks.
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