Image's To Analyse

Tim Barber

Shoot: Nike Destroyers

Year: 2010

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This is the first photo I am going to analyse from Tim Barbers Destroyers shoot for Nike. I'm first drawn to the right frame of the whole photo, The guy on the left has a strong face, the slightly angry look he is giving is effective and stands out, It's shot in Black and White and is high contrast, and I also think it was shot in digital as it is very sharp and detailed, especially the ripple in his jacket. The left photo has a stalker look to it, as it's been shot through a chain fence and the guys aren't paying any attention to the camera, or haven't noticed it, it's slightly voyeurism, it's like we shouldn't really be watching them and makes you feel uncomfortable. The way he has framed these two photos together, they are both vertical but I'm not sure if they compliment each other, a bit random. Even though they are random and I feel like they don't compliment each other it still works, and it's difficult to explain why it does.The genre is fashion, but not in a typical fashion such as a photo studio with models posing etc, It feels natural, and the Urban/Street feel is what i would like to recreate in my photos, from the way they are dressed and what they are doing. They can be separated  with foreground and background, left half the fence would be the foreground and the guys would be the background, I'm not to sure about the depth of field though. For the right half the guys are the foreground and the background is clear, it's also a shallow depth of field as they(the foreground) are in focus. As said before I am first drawn to the right side scan there and then i am drawn to the 'stalker' feel to the picture on the left. I don't he has used any other lighting equipment it seems like the lighting is just natural, however the lighting on the photo on the left is very soft on their faces, the lighting looks to be coming from the left. I think for the last photo it would of been a large f stop and a quick shutter speed to make the chain link fence blur out.

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This is the second photo I've chosen from the Destroyers shoot to analyse. The rider is the subject and my eyes are drawn to him straight away, this shot is also In black and white and I think it's digital. The rider is high contrast yet the background is low contrast, not sure if that has anything to do with depth of field or it's because he did something throughout photoshop or something similar to make the rider have higher contrast. The foreground and background are pretty obvious. As said before my eyes are drawn to the rider and then each individual building. I really like the New York backdrop/skyline. Im guessing it's a fairly large depth of field because the skyline in in focus, not completely, If it was a small depth of field to skyline would be blurred.The horizontal composition helps with the skyline, seeing it has a skyline in the genre is both landscape and fashion.