CHAOS FILM /MARTIN HENSON

Martin Henson was born in 1952 in a place called Adel Mill Farm in West Yorkshire, here he was brought up with all his family. He now lives in a place called Otley a small market town in Wharfedale that is also in West Yorkshire. Because he works from home he has himself a digital darkroom and he does all his processing and printing of images in there. He had his first camera brought when he was 12 years old and it was a Kodak 120 roll film. It was a baker light box camera, with a fixed lens and leaf shutter. It took large negatives and he described it as a 'hit and miss quality' camera, however, it got him started photography. 

He said that his 'first claim to fame' was when he won first prize in the Leeds show and it gave him inspiration to enter more competitions. He said that he's won various competitions over the years but mainly in black and white. Martin Henson had pictures published in nearly every popular photo magazine on the market. He first started in black and white developing and printing, slowly moving to colour, however, he was always drawn back to monochrome as the preferred medium and he said that black and white looks 'simple but effective, dramatic not garnish, and for landscape can't be beaten'. All the pictures on his website were taken over the last few years and he decided to launch his website to show the area around where he lives. 90% of the pictures were taken within a 25 mile radius of where he lives and he intended to shoot lots more and make this website one of the biggest monochrome only landscape websites in the UK. 

'Whilst trekking the hills, dales and moors I have become more aware of the landscape we live in. We don't own it nor do we dictate to it, nature will do what it has to in the most spectacular ways, I am humbled by its power and beauty, I have witnessed amazing light shows, wondrous cloud formations, nature living in complete harmony equipped to cope with the elements, we as humans feel powerful in this technological age but out there we are just another part of life's cycle a gain of sand in a vast arena. I try to capture this sense of power and scale in my images not as the camera sees it but my own interpretation through inspiration on being a witness to events I have been privileged to see.



IVY STUDY

I really like how the edges of the photograph has got a bit of vignette, I think it makes the centre of the image look highlighted and more illuminated. You can really see the detail and the texture in the leafs. The leafs look almost like satin fabric and I like all the small little lines on the leaves.

HOLY LEAFS

I like the vignette on the photograph and I also really like how shiny the holy leaves are. I also think that the aperture on the photograph creates a very elegant look. You can see the texture in the leaves from all the small lines showing definition in the leaves. 

ROSE

I like how to main focus of the photograph is the flower and having the flower in the foreground to be a different colour to the background leaves makes the flower look more bold and centred. The vignette in the photo also make the flower look a lot more highlighted and spotlighted.

FLOWER STUDY

I really like how your eye gets attracted to the centre of the photo. The photograph also has a vignette making the flower look more emphasised. In addition, having the aperture being quite low makes smaller areas in focus being able to fully focus on the flowers and blur out the background.