I don’t have any fears of taking street photography, I’m not afraid to take photos of other people but I am prepared for anything that could happen.
I think the Hutong would be a great place to take some street photography, there would be many different angles and settings to shoot from. Going to the Hutong would also be an exciting experience and is better than going to school. In all, I am looking forward to this trip.
I will focus on culture and human activity in the Hutong.
Inspiration photographer – Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog takes photos of the downtown areas of different cities such as Vancouver and captures the life, light, and other aspects to create an image. This is similar to what I might be doing in streets in the Hutong, and his photos could provide inspiration.
This photo is taken in downtown Vancouver 1950s. This photo is taken in front of a hotel reception and the setting of it explores the streets from a unique perspective. The angles make it seem as though the audience in actually inside the photo. In all, the bustling streets, sidewalk, cars, buildings, shops, hotels can all be seen in the image.
Here are some of the photos I took in school as replacement on the day of the 798 trip which was cancelled.
I narrowed it down to the ten better ones. A lot of it were taken inside the dome as I tried to explore the use of space and angles, combining that with some aspects of architecture. I chose these mainly because they seemed interesting to look at and it also felt cool.
The final three photographs I chose are the outside of a building, a view of a tennis court, and a blurred image of the net from the side.
These are the photos that make up my contact sheet. Taken at 798 it focuses on architectural photography and some of it is inspired by the photographer Steven Longbottom.
Here is the yellow set which is the final ten photos I chose. These stood out to me the most in all of the photos due to the angles, the objects in the photo, and the elements included including the color, shape, and pattern.
Here are the final few photos chosen
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These are my final three
Steven Longbottom is a professional photographer in Manchester. His work focuses on architectural photography.
Here are 8 of his photos:
The Aura of Architecture
The message of my triptych will be to look at and explore all sorts of architecture. Architecture is all around us, in the form of buildings, houses, schools, and other physical structures, it may seem boring and monotonous, but by examining it in a different way, we may start to actually appreciate it. I would like the audience to view the world differently through the unique perception of abstract architecture through the camera. Specifically, by going to the 798 Art District I would like to especially focus on architecture in terms of old industrial buildings, warehouses, and abandoned factories. For inspiration I will try to find a photographer who explores this aspect of architectural abstraction in photography. Particularly, I would like to find and study photos that also examines how this theme relates to the world on a wider scale, for example in a humanitarian, environmental, or geographical perspective. In my opinion, abstract photography is at its finest in capturing architecture, perhaps a retro tinge in this case with industrial architecture at 798 would make it even better.
https://isbeijing.padlet.org/timothywang6/my-glorious-padlet-n23ygndgxig30uop
Formal elements: lines and shapes
Worked: The photo is divided at the center and there is a clear line down the middle
Formal elements: Shapes
Didn’t work: These two share some level of similarity, but don’t think I was able to replicate the original
Formal elements: texture
Worked: The two share a similar texture although color is quite different
Formal elements: pattern and lines
Didn’t work: this does not really resemble any sort of pattern
Formal elements: lines
Worked: the lines are aligned and the spacing is accurate and it is equally abstract
Formal elements: shape
Didn’t work: the ball is not a circle but a sphere and there shouldn’t be any shades in the background as it should be white
Formal elements: lines
Worked: it worked in
Formal elements: pattern, shapes
Didn’t work: The colors are similar but it’s presented in different shapes and the spacing is also different
Formal elements: pattern, lines, shapes
Worked: it shows the repetition of squares
Formal elements: shapes, focus, lines
Worked: it sort of worked as there were distinct lines but ot lacks uniformity
Formal elements: shapes, focus, lines
Didn’t work: The angles are inaccurate, the colors are off, and the shape is wrong
Formal elements: texture, lines
Worked: there is texture
Formal elements in photography means these six elements: line, shape, pattern, texture, tone, focus.
Line – Any type of line in a photo, it could come in any size or shape or color or form or pattern or texture or tone. Something that creates direction or is symbolic or something. Used for effect
Shape – Shapes in photography can be either geometric (straight edged and defined) or organic (curvy).
Pattern – Objects, shapes, or lines that repeat or creates a pattern. E.g. reflection, echo, maze
Texture – The feel of a photograph if it were tangible
Tone – Having a range of tones in a photo from dark to light. Shows value.
Focus – The level of clearness in a photograph, parts of a photo could be either sharp or blurry
TONE
SHAPE
FOCUS
PATTERN
LINE
I think what is meant by this quote is that abstract photography is largely based on the theme of abstraction rather than taking a photo of something in particular like a selfie or picture of a certain thing. I feel like abstract photography is taking photos of something undefined or uncertain that evokes feeling and thought to what it is and what it does and is a piece of art open to interpretation. Like the photo ‘Wrong’ the boundaries between what makes a good or bad photo is very ambiguous and therefore make it abstract
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