Term 2: Week 2 Digital Technology Evaluating an Image Exercise

Evaluating an Image – What do I see? How do I read it?

Evaluating an Image:
Sourcing information at the Library proved to be very difficult. Research alternative on finding a suitable juxtaposition image, my favourite the internet.

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News Media, Stay Away from Meme

June 19, 2011 by Kristen  Reference: https://milchtoast.wordpress.com 

What do I see?

A policeman in riot gear moving towards the camera man? A couple laying in the road kissing each other total absorbed. The background is full of activity with the riot continuing moving the people away out of the area. Evening late at night with angry people rioting. Low light, tension between the rioters and police. Why did the couple choose this place? Totally out of character. Traffic lights working with no vehicles only people. Bus shelter to the right.

What camera and compositional techniques have been used?

• camera focus point (one shot) is on the couple. 

• position rule of thirds with the police offer on the foreground, mid ground couple and the background the rioting crowd being chased.

• Wide depth of field

• No tripod

• foreground out of focus

• mid ground in focus

• background out of focus

• triangles in all four sections

• foreground blurred perhaps the photographer used a flash

• motion blur 

• shadow to the left of the policeman

• background blurred left to right

• mid ground in focus this could be because using the flash helped with the lighting.

• the street is a different colour to the background area. This could be due to the flash exposing the area.

How does this image make me feel?

Excited to find a juxtaposition image. A bit disturbing of the concept of the 'loving couple' in a riot situation? Looking at the image for the first time it looked like the couple where cloned into the image. But on reading the news this acutely happened. CBC article titled “Vancouver riot’s ‘kissing couple’.

What ideas is this photographer working with?

Great compostion. The couple could be so taken by each other that nothing was going to change this moment.  Interesting concept  love and anger. Two totally opposites contrasting side by side. Quick in capturing this image.