Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Nightshift is a book with pictures of nighttime scenes in New york City. The post about the book and what is shows. I found this post to be very boring. I, in all honesty, do not care such simple images. I'd rather take photos myself of such scenes, rather than write about them. The post is simply an advertisement for the book- thus, it is boring, dull, and uninteresting. I believe that people are intelligent enough to desipher the meaning of a photo- they don't need to be told "a story" in addition to images. The people of New York are aware that people work at night. This is not that big of an issue, because in many circumstances, people choose to work at night.

Friday, December 12, 2008

ZIMBABE

The composition of this photo is good. Having that man in the yellow jumper to the right side of the shot instead of in the middle makes the image more interesting because it draws your eye from the front/right of the image to the back. You are drawn backwards because of the grave, which seems to point towards the back of the image. Also, having an uneven amount of sky and land enables the viewer to see more of what's going on in the dirt. The lighting in this shot is also good because it illuminates everything, as in the ground and the person.