My Choice

The type of photo or a photographer I was interested in finding was one that composed with colour.

I found a photographer called David DuChemin and here is a photograph of his that I have chosen:

Jodhpur, India

I like the colour in this photography. The main light source coming from a tungsten street lamp. Its radiant yellow is falls on the scooters. It seems like a normal and natural street setting. The range of colours in this photo are not so spread across the composition: lack of proportion. However, the main focus on the right-hand side of the photo, a third of the photo is full of colour. The blue contrasting to the red, especially the red figure, catches our eyes. On the left half of the composition, the railings and small window is a sky blue is in conjunction with the warm orange: a classic and by no means uncommon combination. As it is such a contrast, the cool blue colour is distinct compared to the warmer colours that surround it, especially the red. It is somewhat odd that there is such a cool temperature colour in a warm country like India. The yellow and orange shades give the composition warmth emphasised with the warm lighting. As the composition is working with buildings, there are strong lines through the rule of thirds and there is an opening down into the alley which shows the sense of perception to us. The corner of a building creeps into the composition.

This photo links to my earlier works where I focused on what colours I could see in the street and also the geometry and lines that are often strongly present in any street setting. This photograph says to me that as great as the composition looks, this mysterious fast-paced red cloaked figure is why this photo exists. Without the figure, this composition would just be a landscape of a random Indian street with some contrasts of vibrant colours.