Blog 2 : Visual Thinking
Elizabeth Gray a structural engineer like to take photographs of urban and architectural sites and has a huge passion for street photography . She loves to take pictures of the environment around here and then go home and visuals it in a totally different way to that when she took the picture the first time ( Elizabeth Gray 2018 ).
The image shown in reference one ,Elizabeth tries to create a convincing shot to let individuals imagine and develop their own stories and ideas . Elizabeth argues that the best photo should include rule of thirds , use of negative space and symmetry but the most important of all is that the viewer and asks questions about what is in the image ( Elizabeth Gray 2018).
When she sees the perfect scenario she detects how the light hits them and how both them will effect the background . One she knows perfectly what she really wants she pre-focuses on were she wants her main object or subject to be and waits for the perfect photo.In her images she tries to capture the emotions,gestures but mostly importantly the moment so that she could tell the story far more better and we examining the image could imagine far more better (Elizabeth Gray 2018).
In this image she is trying to reach to us a message that although that although many people show no kind of facial expression and are highly influenced from social media and companies we need to try and be individuals ( Elizabeth Gray 2018).
Whilst doing this blog I also decided to do a small test with some of my friends, as shown in reference 2 and 3 you could see that both of them agree that the women is trying to mimic the mannequins to feel beautiful and accepted by the society, but they only give a slight perspective of what the true meaning of this photograph is and how today’s society has truly changed . This could also be a sign that in todays education we are not going much in depth on what we could see and what information we could gather from an image.
References:
Elizabeth,EG.2019.Complete Guide For Street Photography For Beginners https://photographylife.com/what-is-street-photography 8 November 2019
Elizabeth,EG,2018.About Elizabeth Gray https://photographybyelizabethgray.com/about-elizabeth-gray/ 8 November 2019
Elizabeth,EG,2018.Photography By Elizabeth Gray https://photographybyelizabethgray.com/ 8 November 2019
Visual Thinking 