Inspired Photos Shooting
5 Formal Critiques
In this photo there are many people standing on the street in Chinatown. They are crowded around a vender selling food. They all have their heads tilted down observing the food. The buildings bend them are older and warn down. Some of the signs behind them are written in English while most of them are written in Chinese. There are more boxed of food on the ground behind them and the sign above them has graffiti on it. Eugene Atget inspired me to capture this photo because he liked to capture realism. In one of his photos, he captured the presence of a group of people standing at the corner of the street looking up into the sky at something. That photo of his helped inspire me to take this photo. This photo is very intriguing just like his because it makes me wonder what everyone is looking at and why it is so important. The formal elements in this photo are color, rule of thirds, and lines. I originally took this photo in color but I edited it in photoshop to make it black and white/sepia. This helped the photo medic the older effect that Atget had on his photos. Rule of thirds is present with where I placed the people looking at the food. There are multiple different lines present in this photo like horizontal, vertical, leading, diagonal, and curved. The lines are all present on the buildings with the windows, railing, signs and the light post.
In this photo there is one two-story building. There is an archway in the middle of the building with a door inside it. Above the arch is an open window that leads to an empty room. On both sides of the open window are more windows that are closed with curtains blocking what it inside. Below those windows are another two windows on the first-story. All over the building are little flower details that are carved onto the building. I was inspired by Eugene Atget because he liked to photo graph older buildings that most people would over look. He would use his photos for architectures and students to use in their studies. This photo captures that beauty of a simply building like Atget did in many of his photos. It is also intriguing because the open windows above makes me wonder what is inside the building. I used lines which are present in the architecture of the building like vertical, horizontal, and curved. I also used color because I photoshopped the color of the photo into black and white/sepia. Lastly, I used simplicity because I moved in close to the building so it became the main focus of the picture.
In this photo there is a single door that is made out of iron and glass. The door has silver handle of the left side of it and a silver rectangle surrounding the iron detail. The iron detail is swirly and very intricate. There is a glass sheet behind the iron detail. The glass reflects the image from across the street. A car, a building and the top of a tree are present in the glass sheet on the door. I was inspired by two of Eugene Atget's photos when I took this photo. In many of his photos he uses store windows with manikins and uses the glass to reflect the image of what is across the street. Also he takes many photographs of stairs and closeup ones of their railings to emphasize the detail within the staircase. I used many formal elements such as color, lines, and reflections. I originally took this photo in color but I edited it in photoshop to make it black and white/sepia. This helped the photo medic the older effect that Atget had on his photos. Lines are present in the shape and detail on the door. Vertical, curved and s-curved lines are present in this picture. Reflection is used with the glass sheet to show what is on the other side of the rode. It reflects the image of a car, building and trees.
In this photo there is a simple white building with a pointed roof. The building has three double-doors with glass windows on them. Above the doors are little glass windows that arch shaped. In front of the doors are four pillars that lead to the words "Christian Science Sunday School" on the front of the building. In front of the building is a path way that splits off in two different directions (left and right). To both sides of the building are shrubs and green grass. I was inspired by Eugene Atget's photo of the Trianon. In his photo he captured the presence of a simple white building in front of a reflecting pool. This building reminded me of the same building Atget used in his photo. In this photo, I used the formal elements of lines, color, and simplicity. I used color because I photoshopped the color of the photo into black and white/sepia. Vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines are present in the shape of the building and curved lines are made with the glass windows above the doors. I also used simplicity because the picture is zoomed up close in the building and the blacking is a simple white sky that does not take away from the building.
In this photo there is a large building behind many Palm trees. The building is many stories and has a dark roof compared to the rest of the building. The roof is pointed at the top and has many little windows on it. There is a little viewing area that separates the roof into two parts. There are big windows at the bottom of the building. The building extends to the left and has many windows on it. Palm trees and grass covers the bottom of the building. I was inspired by Eugene Atget's photo where tree branches cover part of a building on the other side of the river. He made the photo suspenseful because the building in the back was not clear and you couldn't see the whole building. In this photo, I used the formal elements of color, lines, and framing. I originally took this photo in color but I changed it to to black and white/sepia in Photoshop. I used lines such as vertical, horizontal, curved and diagonal with the building and Palm trees. I used framing with the Palm trees because they draw the viewer's attention to the building in the back. The Palm trees create a frame around the center of the building.