Light Shadow Reflection: Prework Part II

Arunan M

This photo is a silhouette with some very dark details able to be seen in the silhouette of it. I personally like the light positioning and the layers of mountains that are reminiscent of layered watercolors. As the subjects clearly are very dark the photo had to be metered on likely the lighter toned mountain range in the back or the clouds in the upper right of the photo as they are well exposed and in detail. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

FRANCE. Paris. 1952-1953. Schoolchildren looking from the top of Notre-Dame cathedral at the Seine River. 

This is a photo from his photo essay on The Seine. I found this image to be extremely interesting. I love the composition, everything that fits in the photo and I just thought it was very captivating. 

Light Shadow & Reflection

Prints

Digital Work

Color Film

Light, Shadow, & Reflection Pre Work

Unknown, found on pinterest. Back lit photo, silhouette



Lark Foord, interesting use of shadow

Light example by Unknown found on pinterest. Really like this photo/concept.\

Reflection photo by Yodamanu, found on pinterest

Saul Leiter

W. Eugene Smith

G.B. 1950. A Welsh town.

W. Eugene Smith was born in December of 1918. He was a photojournalist and took many jarring and brutal photos specifically in World War II and many other places in the world. He had a strong sense of light and composition and specifically subject matter. 

Can a single photo change the world?
I believe that a single photo can possibly change the world but it's a little difficult to say its always the photo changing the world rather than the subject of the photo, so yes and no.