William Eggleston

William Eggleston is an American photographer, known for his colour landscapes of  urban America.

His images composition is always perfect and the positioning within his frame is a clear strength of Eggleston's. His first experimentation with colour photography was back in 1965 using a Canon and Leica which were very popular cameras of that time, from then onwards Eggleston's primary use was colour film within his photography. 

Above are a selection of my favourite images by William Eggleston, showing his American urban landscapes. The main reason I have chosen Eggleston's photography to look at as influence for me is because of the mundane atmosphere that is shown particularly in his landscapes and I think that if I could achieve this in my images that it would work really well with the empty pier. 

One technique I love of his is his use of viewpoints and angles within his images, especially lower angles photographs which I think make his images look more powerful and uniques.

Another technique of Eggleston's is his use of natural light and he uses the time of the day to focus on his lighting, e.g a lot of his images have been taken in the evening with the fading light.