Monday, February 11, 2008

Bus stop


This picture is of the bus stop at night from quite a distance away. For this picture i changed around the saturation of colors in order to make it “look better”. I had to use my own aesthetic sense for when it was looking better, but I think it looks better than the original. Now I’m gonna try to find out how I can make this photo interesting. The lights in the distance obviously remove you from the scene. I think the focus of the picture is on the light coming from in between the two trees, almost watching like a voyeur on the bus stop in that distance. The completely empty bus stop in case you haven’t noticed. That’s kinda what I like about this picture: the lights. This is mainly due to a passion of mine for sodium lights. They’re one of the most beautiful things in our world today. Nothing else in any time period has made night feel that way. Out in the wild night is a dangerous time, and I guess in this picture you could still see night that way because you really can’t see what’s occurring on the grass too well. In the distance though, it looks cozy with the light emitted by those lamps. It doesn’t look scary, or like there is any danger, but instead like it’s somewhere you’d want to be. Sodium lights always have that feeling for me. I personally always associate it with good times at night hanging around schools and stuff. So I guess to me this picture stuck out because of it’s illustration of contrast, which I often like to point out in things I see.

1 comments:

Nancy Kaplan-Biegel said...

Wow--I've never given any notice to "sodium light." Not even sure exactly what they are. I'm glad to see this post, but you've forgotten to include the two embedded related links. Perhaps one could be to something on sodium lights?