60 best photos

here is the 10 best photos

Jungyoon Looking into the reflection in water in which in the reflection she is trying to reach back to herself.

Jungyoon by herself in Atlantis observing the ancient ruins.

Jungyoon sitting down near the Atlantis ruins with reflection.

Jungyoon looking at herself sitting down near the Atlantis ruins without reflection.

Talk about this in the three best ones.

John Looking into the water reflection that is also him but trying to reach real John.

Talk about this in three best ones.

Simple alleyway reflection photo

Hohn’s little head peaking out behind a smile ball while in the reflection he is standing at a near table with his camera.

Here is the three best photos out of all 60.

This first photo of John has a theme of freedom, where in the reality side we see John standing in a grass field facing a building, and in the reflected side we see him but with open arms. The building here has a symbol of work and humanity, while the plants around John symbolizes nature and freedom. In the reality side is the truth of the world, where most of the times people might not always see things so positively, while in the reflected side we can see that John is embracing the world that he is standing on with open arms. I chose to create a reflection because it shows that there is this side to the world that we can all enjoy and admire, that there are ways for us to see the world as a great one, instead of one with pressure and harshness.

This is a photo of Jungyoon and Jungyoon observing a wall that looks ancient and is underwater with a reflection of both of them. In this photo there is quite a lot of abstraction even if it doesn’t seem like that first glance. The dark depressing tone further emphasizes the theme of Lost in self, Lost in Own. The two Jungyoons are symbolizing the split personalities, having the Jungyoon on the left being the normal one on the outside, and the Jungyoon on the right symbolizing her other self, the more fake and fantasy-like one. We can also see that the reflection is actually off, meaning that the reflection shouldn’t look like that, we shouldn’t be able to see Jungyoon’s shoes in the reflection, but that just means that even the imperfections in our world could reflect the most beautiful and fantastic side of us.

In this photo we notice that Jungyoon is looking into the water’s reflection at herself, however in the reflection she is trying to reach back at her. That symbolizes another split personality, a locked one. In the reality side, Jungyoon is unable to be brave to reach out and try say new things, but in the reflection her free side wants to help her out by reaching out to her. All she need to do is to reach back into the water to overcome the problems and hardnesses of the world.

*Because I currently do not have my camera with me so I cannot get the photos from the weekend into the blog, I will be analysing the practice photos that I took for last class.

* First of all I would like to state the issues with my photos last class; one, the ground near the studio was too reflective, therefore when I tried to splash water onto the ground, all we could see was the ground, and the reflection on the water is too transparent to be noticed. Two, the space wasn’t big enough to capture the entire person in the photo, the reason being the person needs to be shown in the reality side and also in the reflected side, and if I backed away, then the messy objects in the sides would all be shown, therefore messing up the entire photo. Three, Because I couldn’t use water, I wanted to use the mirror, however the mirror was too skinny so that the person wouldn’t fit it I went too far back.

To solve the issues in class, I decided to alter the theme by a bit just for the experiments. So instead of doing nature vs humanity themes, I decided to do a person vs self theme. So for this theme I’ll have someone sitting in front of a mirror and in the reflection is supposedly something different, like this:

This is what my original idea looks like, now looking at it I feel like it is still a good idea to work on. In the photo is my mom looking into the reflection, looking down, and in the reflection is her but looking in the same direction as the reality side, as if something was above her.

In this photo is also my mom but it reflects like two different side of her, one happy and one sad. Because of serious lighting issues we couldn’t get any photos on the reflection of streets and cities so that’s what I’m going to try to do when we get to 798.

Idea 1: A Reflected City

This is one of my favorite types of photos to take, because it really give me a sense of a reflected beautiful reality, where the place above the reflection is in contrast of the place in the reflection on the ground. I would like to take this in like a alleyway, that would be best because it is a sort of confined space that we can decorate to give a mood of whatever we really like, and there would be a puddle of water on the ground that is reflecting not the alleyway, but like a contrast to whatever we put in the alleyway. Here’s a example of this type of photo below:

I really love this type because one, it looks really symmetric even though the content in the reflection is different from the reality side. Two, there are so many different ways we could take these photos because all we really need is a beautiful place and a water bottle. Three, I can compose this photo however I like, by replacing the original reflection with all sorts of different cool pictures (that I will take).

Here is another example of this type of picture:

Theme for Idea one:

1. These photos could present the audience a theme of contrast between the urban society and the rural society. Although this would be difficult to take in school, it could be a really great theme to present to not just the class but also the school. These photos can show us that there is a increasing difference between the life styles of the rich and the poor.
2. Another idea that this type of photo can bring to people is the vast variety of culture in the world. In the reality side of the photo we can have for example, a photo of Beijing, and in the reflection there can be like pictures of the city during a festival, or showing the culture and religion of the city or country in the photo.
3. The last idea that these photos can tell us is time. In the reality side there can be a photo of a country in modern day, and then in the reflection it is the same country but decades back, or the other way around. The only real issue that this theme would bring is that I would only be able to do one side of the picture and the other side would have to be from online.

With Camera:

When I took these reflection photos I tried to exclude the element of a mirror in my photos, and include reflections on more natural things. “The Empty Pool” and “School of Ghosts” are all great examples of this, where basically only the reflection is shown through water or the ground, and there’s no actual object or person that is causing that reflection.

“Theater”

“The Empty Pool”

“School of ghosts”

“The Lost Mirror”

“Lights Out”

“Plastic Nature”

With Phone:

“A Winter reflection”

“Creepy Hands, Deadly book”

“Another side”

“The Ceiling within Reach”

“Thomas in outer space”

Just a bunch of Thomasyue 🙂

Comparison between reflection artists

Artist 1: Naoya Hatakeyama

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The artist Naoya Hatakeyama took these 4 amazing photos for the theme of reflection. We can see from these photos that he really likes to use raindrops (real or not) on clear glass and with structures behind it to give the overall photos a really relaxing mood to it. For photo 1, which was the only one that didn’t use rain on glass, we can see that there is a reflection on the ground created by a puddle of water. Although we couldn’t see any of the dark alleyway that was above the reflection, but in the photo we could still see what was supposed to be there through the reflection of the water, which looks like 2 people walking down that alleyway side by side. We could also see in the first photo, that even though the picture seems really dark and gloomy, in the reflection in the water could show us that above the skyscrapers the sky’s still blue and able to see.

In Hatakeyama’s second photo we could see long lines of bright light through glass that has been peppered with raindrops. Hatakeyama here used (I don’t know what it’s called) a technique where the photo would take a long time to take so when a light source passes through the photo, the trail of light is captured. In the second photo we see lots of these trails of light that passes through the photo, giving the picture a sense of passing time and a sped-up version of a video, with only the beautiful light that was captured. In this photo we can also tell that the photo was taken somewhere near the ground, because some of these trails of light are near the top of the photo, so like cars or trains or whatnot that was passing through the photo at the time.

For the third and fourth photo, Hatakeyama used depth in field, a low-to-high perspective, symmetry, and a blurred background. In these two photos although only the raindrops on the glass is clear, we could see that the actual focus is on the structures behind the glass. This is a lot clearer in the fourth photo, when there is only one main structure in the background, which is the Tokyo Tower, and it is so cool how the top and middle bit of the tower is lit up and the raindrops close-up also glows to the same color and vibe to the tower. The lighting is much better in the third photo compared to the overall structure; because it is a wide view of the city of Tokyo at night, the lights illuminated the entirety of the middle of the picture, even making it look like a floating city in the middle of nowhere. It is also really interesting in the third photo that the lights of the city is reflected on the water’s (i think it’s water) surface, the blue and white lights really emphasizing the beauty of the city.

Artist 2: Lee Friedlander

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The artist Lee Friedlander’s photos uses a black and white theme and the composition of his photos are all messy but at the same time interesting. When I looked at these photos my first thought way wow this is a messy picture, but when I took a closer look at the photos I realized that there could be so much more meaning to these pictures that seemed to be taken randomly.

The first two photos that I chose were all photos where Lee took in the car, pointing the camera outside the driver’s window, capturing the reflections of the side mirrors of the cars. The structure and composition of the two photos are a cool perspective and a clear depth in field. Outside the car we see structures, buildings, and roads. The stuff outside of the driver’s window are composed of mostly vertical lines, with most things vertical. Unlike the structures outside of the window, in things reflected in the side mirrors are horizontal; mainly being made of roads and vegetation.

The second pair of photos are a bit different than the first: they do not include their car’s inside view, with only the side mirrors, and they also have people in the pictures instead of just structures. Both photos follow in some way the rule of thirds, with mainly vertical lines going through the picture as well.

Artist 3: Lisette Model

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In Lisette’s photos there again, is a theme of black and white, with the addition of portraits and a close reflection on some sort of glass. In her pictures there would always be one or two people that is the main central focus of that photo. Some of these photos might be photos that are taken un-staged and in the streets, and some are photos of people in their most original nature. These people are without much formality,  and they are usually in a resting position, like lying on the floor or sitting on a chair. In Lisette’s photos we barely see people that are standing up or doing really drastic positions.

Lisette’s pictures almost never have the person in the portrait look at the camera itself, and in general audience of the photos are mainly older woman that looks kinda english. I also noticed that in her pictures the people tend to look to the left, and the entire photo is al focus on the person. There are rare times when she takes a photo of two people, but then the photo will then be entirely focused on the two people the same way as it had for one person only.

In my opinion, one of her coolest photos is the one that has three buildings in the background like behind a sheet of glass. And in the reflection in the glass we could see faintly a woman standing with closed eyes that looked really graceful and she is right on the rule of thirds line (the vertical line on the left). Overall this artist uses a black and white art style combined with portraits and reflections.

Artist 4: Antonio Gutierrez Pereira

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Antonio’s photographs are all revolving around abstraction and close-up portraits of the face. In his photos we can clearly see that he utilizes reflective surfaces and water to create an interesting visual effect for the human face, with the main focus on the eyes. One of his more famous pictures, with a face having a goblet of water in front of each eye, making the eyes look weird but interesting. In that photo Antonio cleverly used the reflective properties of water and glass to create a cool photo.

In Antonio’s other photos we see all sorts of cool compositions with water and glass and a face, creating a variety of different faces that looks simple but amazing.

Idea 1: The Other Side of the Withered Flower

My initial thoughts on this was to create a reflection of a flower (like a rose) through a mirror that is rested against a wall. I wanted to compose the picture so that on the reality side of the mirror someone will be holding the flower (only the hand and the flower is shown) and on the reflected side of the mirror there will be like a withered branch with no flower pedals on top of it. this concept was originally supposed to be through a shadow that was casted on a wall, but with this new reflecting theme, this would also be quite a cool way of taking this photo.

This idea could also work on a surface of water where the water is really reflective and clear, we could also have red water or whatever color of water dripping from the branch of the flower itself that breaks the surface of the water while still being able to see the withered branch on the reflected side.

Idea 2: Through the broken surface

For this idea we could have a mirror that has like a hole through it or a water surface (now that I mentioned water I figured that water was probably the best way to go), and we’ll have a person or a object go halfway through the mirror/water on the reality side. and on the reflected side, we’ll have something else that appears, like the object has been transformed in some way.

Idea 3: Beneath the lenzes

In this composition the camera is focused on the lenx of another camera that has a slightly bigger lenz. And in the reflection on the surface of that lenz could be a person or a scene that would look amazing through a reflection. This could show that the photographer really enjoys beautiful scenes or they love the amazingness of humanity.

Idea 4: A Moon in a Puddle

For this composition we are going to take a photo, a close-up, of a puddle of reflective water during nighttime. The moon and the city would be the main focus of this picture, and. it would only appear inside of the reflected side of the water, and would not be seen on the reality side. The reality side would be composed of the city’s nighttime like the skyscrapers and cars and stuff. The reflected side of the water would only show the moon and the top of the skyscrapers.

Idea 5: The Bridge Between Day and Night

Basically idea 4 but the reality side is another photo of the city at daytime and the reflected side is still nighttime.