This image is inspired by the work of Edward Weston. In his masterpiece, he used only simple colours such as black and white, I was inspired by the use of colour, but I decided to use some other colours such as red and brown. I am also willing to focus on the symmetrical shape of the chair and the tone behind it. I think I’ve successfully created a similar work as Edward Weston’s photography, due to the use of shape space, and tone. The use of shape in this photo is just a chair, and it is closely related to my topic “the beauty of the ordinaries” in several ways. First of all, the chair is not a fancy subject that people will get fascinated by in real life, but something that is often getting ignored. Secondly, I’ve not used any specific technique to emphasize its characteristic but just an ordinary photo. The use of shape in this photo is also editable, you can crop out the left part and highlight the chair, it will also work if cropping out the right side and highlighting the value on the left. The use of tone in this photograph is mainly black and white, however, there is plentiful transition colour such as grey and light black.

 

This image is inspired by the work of Edward Weston, and the Covid-19. In his work, he used straight photography to emphasize the beauty of the subject, therefore I decided to follow his steps. I am also willing to show the beauty of the ordinaries by using the mask as the main subject. Under the current virus, many people are focusing on the virus however ignoring the importance of the mask. Thus, I used to tone, shape and lines to present my initial topic. The use of tone in this picture sort of symbolized the sky, it is also exposed to light and I used cool colours. This also highlights the chair since it has a contrast in colour. The use of shape in this photograph is just a mask, which symbolized the virus. I’ve also used vertical lines to fortify the mask.

 


This image is motivated by the work of Edward Weston. In his work, he used black and white colour and a subject to show the beauty of the ordinaries. I was inspired by his use of colour but I decided to add some colour and movement. Therefore, I used tone, and texture to represent the beauty of the ordinary in this work. First of all, the tone in this picture does not include a transition colour, however using the contrast of the dark background and the light subject. The background was designed to be dark, therefore I used dark blue. Which further creates a contrast to the subjects (book, hand, and the spray) in front. Secondly, the texture used in this image can be discovered from the reflection of light on the chair. By the light reflection, we can tell that the chair has a smooth surface.