Image Analysis

Picture by - Henri Cartier-Bresson

I like this picture as it's a landscape picture showing the natural environment. This picture also uses leading lines, from both bottom corners of the picture to the center of the trees. I also like it because it's not a busy picture, it's quite simple but could still have a lot of meaning behind it. I like how our eyes follow the road in to the trees and then follow the trees to the background of the picture. After we have automatically done that we then look around at the rest of the picture and try to make a story from it. Is there a story or was it just a nice landscape picture to take?

Picture by - Dorothea Lange

I like this picture as although the flag is facing one way, two children are on the right and the clouds are not perfectly the same on either side but it still uses a form of symmetry. The rule of thirds is also involved in this picture I can imagine that the top line would go somewhere across the top of the mountains and the bottom line somewhere across the bottom of the centre cabin. I imagine the flag will be in the top center square as we look at the middle of the image first which is basically the cabing and follow it up until we see the flag. The foreground is the flag, the mid-ground is the cabin and children who are on the right. The background is the mountains, the clouds and the sky. The cabins along the side of the picture go through the mid-ground and background.The subject of this photograph is the flag as it is in the center and dominates the picture.

Picture by - Bill Brandt

This picture is an unusual picture and i cannot decide if i like it or not. I like the idea of using the foreground (being the mans ear), mid-ground (being the pebbles and sand) and background (being the cliff and sky) boldly but I think it's quite vague. We don't really get much of a story to this picture or and idea of what's really going on. I can imagine the rule of thirds has been used in this picture having the bottom line just above the persons head/ear and having the top line just below the cliff.