Reflection
This photograph shows reflection which was captured in a glass window inside college.The picture itself is rather blurred but you can still make out two people are stood in front of the glass taking a picture of their reflection. When a shot of a reflection is taken either it just been a picture or in a movie the idea is that the person who we can see in the reflection are thinking about themselves and their life. It's kind of like looking in to the mind of someone visually from the outside so we have an idea of what they are thinking about.
The photograph here shows reflection outside on a sunny day of the person taking to photo (me) and a friend. We are separated by a bar which I tried to use as a form of framing. This picture also uses a slight form of repetition as my friend is captured in the reflection but also seen in the background of a door behind us. The idea here of my friend captured in two reflections could mean a couple of things e,g, she may have two personalities, the one showing who she really is is the clear reflection in the window and the reflection taking in the door behind could show that this is her other personality, mysterious and dark as her back is turned so we do not know who she really is.It could also mean she is reflecting on her life in to so much depth that she has split herself in to two e.g the bad things she's done and the good things she's done.
Repetition
These pictures were taken outside the college in a bike shelter, as many people cycle to college and all the bikes get locked up here we thought it would be a brilliant place to take a picture for repetition as bikes look almost the same. The idea of repetition is to show the subject of 'same' if it were a picture of people it would show them all lined up and how similar human are but on the other hand in this picture the bikes are a different colour, different sized wheels and different makes of the bikes. Therefor although it shows how similar the item/person is in the picture it also shows that everything is individual and unique at the same time due to small changes.
I saw this was a good choice of repetition as i was only walking down the stairs and just decided to look all the way down to find that it's sort of a spiral stair case and it gets smaller the further down it gets therefore the camera could capture each banister. This shows repetition in a way but not much of it. as the picture was taken leaning over the left hand side of the stairs we can only really see the right hand stair case going all the way down and it doesn't last that long. It only really shows three stair cases and in a way they all look the same but the lighting on all different floors makes them look different a little bit.
Shadows and Ourselves
This day was a really sunny day which was perfect as we were taking pictures of shadows. We were also taking pictures of ourselves so we decided to incorporate both ideas and not only take pictures of things with shadows but of our shadows therefore two subjects are in the same picture. We were looking at and artist called Diane Arbus who takes pictures of people for her subject. She doesn't just take pictures of everyday people though, she focuses on the abnormal as she would say. She takes pictures of people who are poor and cannot handle much or are homeless, who do not really have purpose in life. We found the top left picture looked fascinating as the sign made writing on the ground but the picture below is of a person. I had the idea from Diane Arbus as she focused on the abnormal and as my friend has her back turned this again could show she is mysterious or dark and mean due to her shadow that is straight in front of her.
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