Category Archives: Photography
Red Photos
I chose the first photo because I loved the lighting from one side, the focus and clearness on the man’s face, and the composition of the man’s face with the smoke adding interest.
I chose the second photo because I liked the composition of the man on the left, I liked how the glass added an interesting element where some parts of the reflection were clear while other parts were foggy from the heat of the smoke. I also think that the row of spices hanging above the man in a straight line adds color and makes it more interesting.
I chose the last photo because even though this photo was an accident, I liked the contrast of the form and darkness of the man against the background. The background is in focus, while the man is kind of blurry, I think that that looks interesting.
Green Street Photos
I chose these photos by deleting the pictures from the yellow ones that were too similar and just chose one of them. I was also more strict with picking pieces that I felt that was the top photos that had the most potential, picking pieces in the yellow photos that I thought was the most stylistically interesting.
Street Photos Yellow
I selected these photos because I felt that they had the potential to be the top pictures or the pictures that I ultimately will chose. My criteria was not very fixed and I just picked pieces that caught my eyes, like having a interesting composition, good contrast, and preciseness on the parts that I would like to focus.
All Street Photos
Photo Set 2 Photographer: Alex Webb
The photographer that I chose is Alex Web because he usually takes photos on the streets and has a aesthetic array of colors that make it look vintage. His photos also have a strong contrast that makes the blacks stand out against the colors.
Red Photos
These three final pieces ultimately highlight the style of Aaron Siskind: the blurry, bold, and organic style as shown through the pieces above. Eventhough I think these photographs are well done and really capture the variety of styles that are included in Siskind’s work, I think that for my triptych, I could focus on collecting pieces that fit one of the three styles rather than just a variety so that it would look more cohesive. For my next shoot, I would want to improve on the cohesiveness of the pieces and to emphasize Aaron Siskind’s close-up abstract style even more.
Green Photos
I chose these photos as my green photos because I think it captures Aaron Siskind’s style better than the yellow photos since these photos have a better focus on contrast and close-up texture. Therefore, when choosing the green photos among the yellow ones, I made sure that the photos that I chose would have the most standing-out elements as shown with Siskind’s work.
Yellow Photos
I have selected these photos as yellow because I think it include a large variation of the style from Aaron Siskind. Many of these photos have the close-up, unable to identify aspect as shown with Siskind’s pieces. Although my photos aren’t black and white, many of these photos have a strong contrast as if they were in black and white.
Aaron Siskind Inspiration for 798
5 Characteristics
-Close-up composition: The photos are fairly close-up to the point you can see the details of the subject taken.
-Black and white colors: The colors in his photos are all colorless to emphasize the forms of the objects. The use of black and white shows greater contrast, the usage of colors in between like different shades of gray shows less contrast.
-Unclear focus: What makes the photos especially abstract is the fact that the photos are so close-up that it is hard to depict what it is, therefore, having an unclear focus.
-Interesting and a variety of textures: Some photos have a crinkly texture, some photos are smooth, and some are organic.
-different forms: Similar to texture, Siskind’s photos emphasize the different forms where some are flat (which are more graphic), and others are more three-dimensional (which have more depth).
I have chosen Siskind because I love his usage of texture and form to make the photographs feel very organic and raw. I hope by doing so, I can pursue photographs that can be very reflective of the raw city life.