Reflections

Skyscrapers are now ubiquitous in cities around the world. It has become an indispensable part of a city’s skyline. The large panels of glass that act as windows also act as a mirror, reflecting the outside area. The message of my triptych will be to show the astounding areas surrounding the skyscrapers through the reflection from the windows and also to realize how small and insignificant we are compared to the magnificent buildings that make up the skylines of the city. I want the audience to appreciate the beauty of the magnificent skyscrapers surrounding them and the scene reflecting off the vast floor-to-ceiling windows.

Reverie #2 Portland Oregon

White Tower Portland, Oregon

Shifting Perspective New York City, New York

Rooftop Dream Chicago, Illinois

City Landscape Chicago, Illinois

Waterfront Blues Vancouver, British Columbia

Bricks And Mirrors New York City, New York

Illusion New York City, New York

The use of lines appears in every photograph of Andreas Stone. For example, “Reverie #2”, “Rooftop Dream,” “City Landscape,” and “Bricks And Mirrors” all have lines that run through the picture. They give the mirrors shape, making them look three-dimensional and not just a simple mirror.

The lines also make a pattern in “Reverie #2”, “Rooftop Dream,” and “City Landscape.” Andreas uses these patterns to give the photos their own style. Which is what makes her photographs more unique than others. The designs in her picture resemble rectangles, the shape of windows in massive skyscrapers.

Andreas uses a variety of colors in her various photographs. For example, the “White Tower” and “Rooftop Dream” contain colors from multiple spectrums of the color wheel. In the “Rooftop Dream” photograph, the blue background makes the red brick building in the front stand out.

Andreas also keeps an outstanding balance between the hot and cold colors of her photographs. For example, in the photo “Bricks and Mirrors New York City,” she balances the bright blue with a less saturated gray and blue background, making the whole photograph more harmonic.

Andreas’s work primarily focuses on the scene reflected from the windows of skyscrapers. For example, the “Bricks and Mirrors New York City” shows a location reflected from a building’s massive windows. Another example is the “Shifting Perspective New York,” which shows a cloud and two buildings from massive windows. It fits my vision perfectly, which is to appreciate the scenes around huge buildings through the reflections of their windows.

I chose this photographer because of her photographs. It perfectly matches my vision: to appreciate the scene around skyscrapers through the massive windows. The pictures use a variety of color, which makes them look a lot livelier. For example, the “Bricks and Mirrors New York City” uses different shades of blue, yellow, and red.

Bricks And Mirrors New York City, New York

I chose this image because this fits my vision the best, the windows act as mirrors, reflecting the area around the buildings, we can see a small part of a massive glassy skyscraper, a part of a brick building. the This photo is also different from the others like “Rooftop Dream” and “City Landscape” because it does not feel like a painting.

One thing that I find very surprising in this photograph is almost each of the column of glass panels towards the middle reflect a completely different building and scene from the others.

I think that the most important formal element of this photo is line. The photo uses a lot of lines to split the windows and make the building look more three dimensional. The lines define the individual pieces of windows that reflect the outside scene.

The windows in Andrea’s photographs reflect very different things from others. This is where her photographs are very abstract, we are only revealed a small part of the scene around the buildings. We cannot fully confirm what is reflected but we do have an idea.

I really like this style because of its mysteriousness. In some photographs, like Andrea’s “Bricks And Mirrors New York City, New York” we are only revealed a part of the the buildings that surround the area, which makes us want to look for the whole picture.

I will adapt to this style by using the lines to make the buildings more three dimensional. I will also implement the style by finding angles at which the buildings reflection look distorted and like a painting.

SET 2:

I picked these images because some of them have reflective windows that reflected some part of the other side of the building. Others I picked because they look very nice, but doesn’t meet the vision quite well.

These 5 photos fits my vision well, most of them have reflections that show a scene, however, I found a few better versions of these photos.

These 3 photos are my best picks for this set. These photos not only reflect a view of the surrounding area, but also look interesting and beautiful. For example, the photo on the top right corner not only show the other side of the building, but it is also bathed in sunlight. Another example is the photo below the previous one. The windows on the lower half of the photo show the surrounding scene, but with minor distortion and also have lines that make it look three dimensional.