Connecting Essay 1

Connecting Essay 1

Both of these photographs below are both similar and different in different aspects. 

The first is of the upper part of a bottle and it is looking out onto a seaside location. There are elements of colour, depth and to some extent shape and texture. The shape is shown by the circular bottle lid which is in the foreground of the photograph. Colour is shown throughout the whole of the image, there are bold colours on the lid of the bottle and then there is a wide range of colours within the background. It can be argued that texture is shown by the grass and then the concrete pathway which leads into the background. Depth is present in this particular photo quite a bit and it is shown by the path and beach going of into the distance and becoming thinner as it become farther away. 

The second photograph is of a ball in front of some beach huts but the background is blurred so all the focus is on the ball in the foreground. There is colour, texture, form and to some extent is shape. The colour is demonstrated by the bold and bright colouring of the beach ball and then also the brightly coloured beach hut directly in the background. Texture is demonstrated by the stony ground around the ball and the texture conveyed is rough. Shape is shown by the circular ball and then the strong shapes of the beach hut. The main focus of this photograph is the ball which is in the foreground, this is because the background is blurred and the only focused item is the ball.

Both of these pictures are similar because they are at a seaside location and they both incorporate similar elements. Although they are both at the seaside, they are at different parts of the beach. The first photo has the sand and sea in sight and the walkway above the beach where as the second one shows just the beach huts. They both show colour, texture, shape through the use of objects and the background. Although there is a single object in each they are associated with different things, the item in the second photo is associated with a child where as the first is associated with an older person. The background of the second photo is blurred but you can still make out what the background is where as in the first the background is focused. The latter of the two photographs includes much more colour than the first, the colours in this photograph are more bold and vibrant than in the first photograph. Because of the difference in colours, the object used stands out more in the second photograph.