From Smashingmagazine.com artist: Alin Ciortea
What I really really love about this photo is the focus. The textures in the brick are recognizable, if not distinct all the way up the street and walls. There is a patch of dryness right around the subject, giving him even more weight. The contrast is very intense, and the trees just feet away from the foreground are simply silhouettes. The vantage point makes the street huge and the child tiny in comparison. The icing on the cake is the girl's expression. She is tiny, but she is crisp and clear and in focus, and where we see an unoccupied cobbled street, she sees the entire world. She is curious, even a bit afraid, but she is about to step into the world she has been told so much about.
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http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/ Title: Progress Artist: Unlisted
Another image of striking contrast, which is important, because it is basically a photo of shadows. It very clearly delineates what light passes though and what it cannot. There is very little grey in this at all. The title is "Progress" which implies a relationship, though framing, between the endless body of water and the zigguranic skyline, and its clear-white emissions. I think what is most powerful is the stark color difference between the water and the machines, and then the similarity between the water and the steam. Upon enlargement, the photo gets a little blurry, but it think the focus would actually benefit from being pushed even more towards silhouette than it is now, more than it would benefit from better content focus.
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