Yellow Section:

Green Section:

 

Red Section（My best one):

The working title of this project is called “Falsehood and Reality”. I want my audience to feel uniqueness, integration, and authenticity. I get inspiration and develop my ideas by looking for photographs with vivid subjects and clear backgrounds to show motion. The Day I took this photo, my legs hurt, so I spent 2 RMB and went onto the traditional Hong Kong Tram with my camera. I decided to take pictures on the Tram because the Tram stops frequently to wait for passengers. I went upstairs and found a good-view seat. I took several photos on the TrTramand, and they all had a unique perspective from up to down. For this photo, I was on the TrTramand, and it drove to the bottom of a bridge; it was very dark, but many people were setting up a stall there because it was away from the sunlight. The Subway station is on the right of the bright side, so all people on the left of the bridge have to cross this small under-bridge market to get there. So the scene of my view is that people at the stall were kelp stationary, but people who were walking to the subway station were all moving fast cause, you know, people in HK often walk faster than in other cities.

In this view, I decided to use time-lapse mode to show the contrast between the people who were moving and people who were still, which is interesting. The Tram was not going to stop long, so I quickly opened M mode and set the time-lapse time to 1/5. Even though this underbridge place is dark enough, the time-lapse of 1/5 still made my frame overexposed, I minimized the iso and the aperture, but it was still overexposed. Tram Tram was about to move, so I didn’t care much and took the photo. I took the first photo, but I found out that I didn’t keep my hand exceptionally still, which made the frame kind of blurry because it is in time-lapse mode(the blurry one is in the yellow section). I quickly took the second photo with my hand as still as possible, and it worked well. In this second photo I took, people who were traveling to the subway station from a brook walked perfectly in a line. The people at the stall were clearly shown in the photo and also in the surroundings. As I returned to Beijing and checked for all the photos I took in Hong Kong, I noticed that most of my photos were overexposed because of my time-lapse mode. Some of the images were too dark because when I was transferring from outside to indoors, the intensity of the light suddenly became very low. At home, I did a lot of work on modifying the brightness of the photos.

The frame was too dark for this photo, so I modified the brightness and exposure to 100%, making the image slightly bright overall. I cropped out a tiny part of the photo because I thought that otherwise, there would be too many components in the image, which would make it chaos. As I cropped this photo, I left the traffic light on the 3/4 of the photo and tried to put the stream of human line in the middle. I cropped out some area on top, but I found out that I was cropping out the head of the person walking on top, which is not good, so I cropped out more downward until it reached his chest. I turned the shallow into 18% to make all the gray darker. I chose a contrast cold color filter, which made my overall picture More story-like.

The theme of this motion and nonmotion photo is that “Slow your pace down and experience the world reflect your true self.” The pace of modern society is fast; everyone is working hard, and it will not slow down to wait for you. In the photo, the blurry line of people moving shows the fast pace of this modern society; everyone walks fast, and throughout their whole day, they race against time like robots. Consequently, people who rushed their time were all burly; their blurry bodies and non-recognized faces symbolize they have already lost themselves in the fast-paced modern society, just like a headless gray, sitting mechanical work every day. Even though the outer physical body was still theirs, their mental reality vanished. However, some other people know how to live their true selves in a chaotic society; these people have distinct bodies and clear faces that symbolize their true personalities and have self-awareness and emotions. For example, the people in the bottom left corner were in a stall of the pulpit; one characteristic of prayer is that they keep their bodies still and think about their lives and the actual and literal reflection of themself during the prayers. For another example, in the top left corner, the white shirt guy was strolling and playing with his phone. This sense of relaxation can return to the most authentic self, which is why he is not blurry. In conclusion, this photo means that people who slow their pace and intensity down are the people who get to meet their actual selves.