I appreciate your experimental attitude. In this assignment, you tried out a lot of different techniques. The bottom two images capture the frenetic quality of light and movement. I am particularly interested in the relationship between the dark, static figure and the moving light. Together these element create a nice tension. The fourth photo might have been stronger had you gotten closer to your subject, so that the shadowed figures interacted and competed with the light. Formally, there would have been more structure to the image. Here, the light haunts and has a design and direction of its own. The top three images are much more studied. The top image feels less about than about the representation of the train building. It is true that the light adds mood to this otherwise banal exterior, but light doesn't seem to transform the scene enough, and instead, the viewer ultimately still sees the architecture and not the form of the light. The middle two pictures (although similar to the first) feel different in intention. The symmetry and placement of objects in the frame in careful and well designed. Here the light and its glare become part of the composition, a subject (if you will) with almost a weight and tangible presence. The light has shape a weight. It is not just a device used to describe subject, but becomes the subject itself. I like how the bench, lamppost, and lights become one form- nicely seen!
I appreciate your experimental attitude. In this assignment, you tried out a lot of different techniques. The bottom two images capture the frenetic quality of light and movement. I am particularly interested in the relationship between the dark, static figure and the moving light. Together these element create a nice tension. The fourth photo might have been stronger had you gotten closer to your subject, so that the shadowed figures interacted and competed with the light. Formally, there would have been more structure to the image. Here, the light haunts and has a design and direction of its own. The top three images are much more studied. The top image feels less about than about the representation of the train building. It is true that the light adds mood to this otherwise banal exterior, but light doesn't seem to transform the scene enough, and instead, the viewer ultimately still sees the architecture and not the form of the light. The middle two pictures (although similar to the first) feel different in intention. The symmetry and placement of objects in the frame in careful and well designed. Here the light and its glare become part of the composition, a subject (if you will) with almost a weight and tangible presence. The light has shape a weight. It is not just a device used to describe subject, but becomes the subject itself. I like how the bench, lamppost, and lights become one form- nicely seen!
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