Sally Davies is a street photographer known for her fascinating frame and composition of the viewpoint. Lots of her photographs focuses on filling the blank spaces, which leads to a greater interest and completeness.

List 3 things the photographer might have been interested in capturing in this picture?

  • The person inside the store looking at the camera(the outside)
  • The similar tone of muted grey colors
  • the format of the photograph of how the rectangular shape of the store fits perfectly in the frame

If you were the photographer, what title would you give it? Explain why.

  • Senior
  • Senior, referring to the meaning of a person who is a specified number of years older than someone else, or a student in one of the higher forms of a senior school, anchors the image with its time, memory, and quiet mood of daily street life. First, the grey toned palette acts like the oxygen in our life, something necessary in the photograph to make it outstanding, and deepening its aged mood. While the light and soft color keeps the general atmosphere calm and gentle, the bit of mint peeking out adds a spark that blends out the tine of the overall photograph. These blended colors gives the message of time, how time has passed, how time has made the outer part of the store worn out and fuzzy, while the inner part might have the warmest feeling.  The first keyword “time” with the mixture of grey toned, or classical, or colors with low saturations, expanded the calmness and timelessness, making the photograph as a whole to have a deeper view.
  • The second keyword is memory, which really focuses on the person staring at the window. How the photograph captured the person’s gestures, both facial and hand, maximizes the depth, leading to the meaning of thinking of the past, or continuity of the past, or even the present seeking to past moments. The texture also highlights the old memories; old, tarnished metal, dusty air conditioner, and the worn-out wooden wall. These features all combined to a single photograph make the antique mood even deeper and deeper.
  • At last, the sunlight coming into the frame on the bottom left adds the final touch to the photograph, increasing the completeness with its warm mood. Rather than changing the whole mood or texture of the features, the sunlight helps the viewers to lead their attention to small parts as well. Besides the sunlight, the geometric shapes of the windows acts like the frame inside the frame of the store, keeping the focus by not just keeping the photograph to have a soft, calm mood, but adding some straight lines and rectangular shapes increases the clarity, too.

Describe the use of line, shape, Pattern, texture, tone and focus – USE THE NOTES ABOVE AS A GUIDE. SOME EXAMPLES of WORK BELOW.

  • The line formatting the shape of the store is really straight-forward. The balanced ratio of the lines with the windows just creates the shape that brings daily moods as we see those stores daily. The different sized geometric shapes also increases some interest as the size of the store, door, air conditioner, and the windows vary.
  • The texture of the photograph seems pretty plain as it isn’t a zoomed-in photograph. However, I feel like the texture of the outer part of the store will be rough and worn-out, with some peeled off paints, and those textures will lead to the increasing mood of “seniors”.
  • The tone of the photograph is what makes it outstanding. The muted, grey tone of the photograph also makes it look more classic and aged, also leading to the idea of the passage of time. The various saturation of grey increases the depth of the photograph with the shadow, as well.