This photo was very interesting to me and really caught my eye. I am pulled into this photo of a musician on the street playing his cello amidst all of the chaos around him. This photo uses blur to draw my eye straight to the main focus of the photograph which is the man playing his instrument, however, the blur of the people walking around him adds to the story by showing how busy everyone is walking to and from where they are going and not taking the time to pay attention to the man next to them. Leading lines are also used in the architecture of the building behind the man to draw your eye to him. The photograph is also framed in a way by the blurred people on either side of the man which further causes you to focus on him. By looking at the man in the photograph, I infer that he is an aspiring cellist and is trying to make it bigger in the city. He plays his cello on the street to find people who want to listen and also to try to earn money to get to a bigger stage.
I chose this photo because my eye was drawn to the movement in the photo and the perfect decisive moment. This man is in the city playing frisbee with his dog in the middle of the street. It looks like he may have trained his dog to do different frisbee tricks and wants to show off downtown. Leading lines of the road draw you in to the subject of the photo and the action taking place as well as vanishing point which causes you to look behind him. This does not use rule of thirds, however, by placing the subject right in the middle and having people on the sides of him, it causes your eye to be drawn to the subject. Motion is an obvious use with the dog actually in the air and the man looks as if he is pulling back which makes it so that you are actually inside of the photograph watching him and his dog in the street.
This photo is of a simple subject that we see every day, a woman crossing a street. However, the decisive moment of this photo makes it look like something we have never seen before and it makes us want to turn and look. This woman is crossing a crosswalk in a downtown city area and judging by the clothes she is wearing, it looks like she is on her way to work since she looks so professional. Motion is used in this photograph to show that she is in the middle of walking. You can see the flow of her hair being pushed by wind and her hands in the middle of arranging her purse. Rule of thirds is used in the placement of the woman in the photograph to further draw your eye to her even when there are cars and signs around her. The leading lines in the cross walk also help us to focus on her in the middle of them walking across.
Curtis and his friend, Ray, both homeless in downtown Grand Rapids, were so excited that I wanted to take a picture of them that they posed for me.
Kyle Underwood, meteorologist for Grand Rapids news, talks about how the beautiful weather has caused many people to gather downtown.
Chris sits down to let his dogs rest from their walk, he explains to me that when it's warm outside and he has the day off of work he always likes to spend it downtown with his favorite companions.
Tyler, student at Kendall College studying graphic design, takes a break from his classes to longboard and spend time some much needed time outside.
A man walks to meet his girlfriend for late dinner downtown as the sun is beginning to set.
As I take a picture of two girls walking by hoping they don't think I'm too strange, I realize that it is no other than Allison and Gabrielle also taking street photographs.
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