Crossings

                The title of this series is “Crossings”. What I look to achieve with these photographs are to pull an individual out from a crowd. In New York City people live a very hectic lifestyle, continually surrounded by others. I want to slow that down. Through capturing that moment in time the viewer is able to take a second look.  I fill the frame with people, with only one of them being the main focus. By doing this, I show the viewer something that normally just passes them by. People tend not to slow down and look at everyone passing them.  I seek subtle everyday moments on the street and make them noticeable. Every individual shares their own emotions throughout this series, showing the variety of situations that they are involved in. “Crossings” aims to make the viewer take a closer look at everything and everyone that surrounds them. You never know who will pass you by.

Final Project Proposal- Crossings

Street Photography

Portrait of a Place

Environmental Portrait

A Day in Color

 

 

Lighting

                    In this photo the light is used to help portray the mood. The light was placed in front of her face so that only one side of her body was illuminated. The orange light and the expression on her face go together in creating the calming mood. The shadows that are created over her face, hiding her face, make the expression and the mood even more mysterious.

 

The light in this photo was also used to help create the mood. With the door 

opening to the light shadows are being created. The orange glow of the light, pouring out of the room, help in the mystery of what is behind the door.

 

The light in this photo helps make the composition balanced. The light is giving 

off an orange glow, that are shown on the wire and the telephone poll, are put u against the blue glow of the sky.

 

Abstraction

 



       In these photographs I focused on the way that the shapes are arranged in the picture plane. In the first picture the shape cuts right through the picture plane. In the second picture the shape is placed on the picture plane. In both pictures the reflections play a role, creating more shapes within. The colors of the shapes are also mimicked throughout the background, helping  the composition. In both pictures, the depth of field helps with the juxtaposition of the shape in the foreground, which are detailed, and those created in the background, which are blurry.

Scavenger Hunt

     This photograph was based around the idea of zooming into an inanimate object. In this case it is a meter. The reason why I took this was because of the way the mechanical aspects of the meter juxtapose with the flatness of the color in the background. It becomes an abstraction when you zoom in on one specific portion of the object.




 


        This photograph was based around the worms eye perspective. What I like about this photograph was the way that the subject presents itself. Shoes are always something that you normally see on your feet. People usually see them from a bird's eye perspective. But in this angle the shoes overpower the picture, giving the idea that they are actually larger then life. An angle can change everything.

       This photograph was based around the idea of taking a self-portrait of something representing you. In this composition I was attracted to the way that the books and the shelves creating diagonals. The photography books on the shelves are something the describes what I am interested in but they also help in creating the composition.

     This photograph was the idea of reflection. In this composition I really liked the way that the side of the car distorts the image that it is reflecting. There is also the idea in the tire on the actual car and the tire of the other car being mimicked in the reflection.