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Light: Line: Repetition: Shape: Space: Texture: Value/Tone: |
Which areas appear clearest or sharpest in the photograph? Which do not?
Which areas of the photograph are brightest? Are there any shadows? Does the photograph allow you to guess the time of day? Is the light natural or artificial? Harsh or soft? Reflected or direct? Are there objects in the photograph that act as lines? Are they straight, curvy, thin, thick? Do the lines create direction in the photograph? Do they outline? Do the lines show movement or energy? Are there any objects, shapes or lines which repeat and create a pattern? Do you see geometric (straight edged) or organic (curvy) shapes? Which are they? Is there depth to the photograph or does it seem shallow? What creates this appearance? Are there important negative (empty) spaces in addition to positive (solid) spaces? Is there depth created by spatial illusions i.e. perspective? If you could touch the surface of the photograph how would it feel? How do the objects in the picture look like they would feel? Is there a range of tones from dark to light? Where is the darkest value? Where is the lightest? |
This image is by Annie Leibovitz, and she is a photographer who mainly works on Disney but this is one focuses on abstraction. This is because it can be difficult to understand it as it is camouflage. At first when looking at it you don't know what the image actually is but once looking closer and identifying the shapes and lines you can see, that there is a person in the middle and that the picture is made to look like the inside of a house, most likely the living room.
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This image is by Ivring Penn, I found this interesting because you can barely see the persons head and the background and person is white, it's not as blended in but it its still abstract. This image consists of an formal element which is mainly shape. Another reason I have a liking or this image is because the body is bent forward as if it is in some kind of pain. When first looking at this image I thought it was dull however after looking deeper into it I realised that it may have deeper meanings than it shows.
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WWW: What I think went well with these
set of images is that they are similar to Harry's photographs and also like Callahan they are cropped so you can only see the cropped subject. |
EBI: These photographs would be even better if the wind blew the trees and grass out of proportion, to make them more abstract. Also what would make these photographs better would be if I took them in a different area so I could take them of different subjects.
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I chose this picture because of the colours, Leiter uses the colours abstractly, you can see some red in the background which isn't in focus but the main colour that Saul Leiter would be focusing on would be the pink umbrella with black outlines. Saul Leiters photographs also link to street photography, it features subjects in situations within public places. One of the formal elements that Leiter definitely focuses on would be focus. This because most of his pictures have one main focus and the rest of the image is blurred and not in focus. This could be a person or an object.
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