Larry Fink Photo Analysis
This photo by Larry Fink is called John Sabatine and Molly. The light in the photo comes down from the top left and from behind the camera. The light falls mostly of the faces of the man and the baby, creating shadows and emphasizes the details on their faces. The photo has both white whites, specifically noticeably in the baby's party hat, and black blacks, specifically in the man's cap. The photo is in focus and it might be a tad underexposed, but the photo still looks good. The shutter speed was most likely a faster one, since there is no blurriness in the photo. The photo was taken straight on and I would argue the photo is asymmetrically balanced; On the left there's the older man and then on the right there is the baby. It highlights the age difference between the two. I believe the photo does follow the rule, with the man's face lines up with the top left corner of the rule of thirds. The focal point of the photo is the man since he's in the rule of thirds. The photo is neither horizontal or vertical since the photo is square. Fink framed the photo to create a sense of space because the man is holding the baby on his side, so the man seems to be more towards the camera. And then there's a nice sense of space between the man holding the baby and the kitchen in the background. There's a difference in texture of the man's older, rougher skin compared to the baby's smooth skin. The also nice texture in their hair and the curtain on the door. There is no "line" that leads your eye through the work, but you first focus on the man, but then your eyes then go towards the baby's face. I imagine that this is the baby's first birthday and the man is the baby's grandfather. It looks like he just came home from work and that he's happy to celebrate his grandson's birthday. This photo creates a mood of happiness and excitement, since it looks like the baby's birthday and can tell by the man's eyes & his smile.
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Larry Fink Inspired Photo Series
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"We are all ugly, we are all beautiful. To recognize the ugliness and the beauty in others, you must first accept those qualities in yourself. As an exercise in empathy and photography, go out into the world and try to photograph a whole palette of different human emotions and breadth of experience."
In this series, I explored empathy with nature by focusing on dead plants. These plants have lost all there leaves and colors, so they lose their interest. I wanted to try to show that things that are considered ugly can still be beautiful. Specifically photos 4 and 5, they were the ugliest in the yard. But I was able to create a photo that I am really happy with and that I think is beautiful. For most of the photos in this series I put my camera right up or actually into the plant I was photographing. I tried to focus on leading lines, such as in photos 3 through 7. I chose this quote because in my series, I photographed plants that have died. Even though these plants may have lost there "beauty" and considered ugly, they're still able to be beauty if looked at from a different perspective.
Metaphor
With my series, I was trying to communicate that even with something that is supposed to help people see, glasses, their vision can still be falsely distorted. For example, in photo 7 two pairs of glasses were used. Typically, glasses would help the person see better. But in the photo, the glasses actually distort the girl in the background and make a false sense of reality. In my photos I used my old pairs of glasses and my rainbow glasses to distort whatever is behind the glasses. This can be seen in most of photos, but especially in photos 10 and 12 since the rainbow glasses were used.