My Visual Diary - Colours Of The Rainbow

At lunch, we decided to go to Next cafe. Whenever I'm out and about, I'm always looking around so when I saw this popcorn display I thought it was very creative, interesting and attractive. The colours of he popcorn bags were all in order in cute little jars which looked different. The colours and the jars were quite outstanding against the rest of the suroundings, to enhance this I used photoshop to blur everything else.

There was one chair around the table which was empty and looked pretty lonley and gloomy. When I was looking through my photos, I chose this one originally in colour intending on changing it to black and white. The black and white filter is something I like to use quite often as I feel it adds depth and a sense of what sometime could be warmth and could sometimes be coldness and lonliness.

When I had finished editing this photograph, it reminded me of a piece of work I had previously seen by Wright Morris. The picture below was taken in 1947 by Wright Morris, he was an American photographer and writer who worked a lot with composition and black and white photography. This picture stands out to me because I like the way the chair is almost central and the composition of where it's positioned in the room intruiges me. I like how below the chair seat, the background is the patterned flooring. This is a big contrast to the chair legs which are quite plain, dark and simple. The flooring is a common, patterned carpet which gives off the sense of typical old fashioned house. It's the sort of furniture you would find in anyone's home. The top half of the background image is the wall which is again, lighter than the chair so there is a contrast but it's not so patterned. The wall looks grainy which helps to portray the time this photograph was taken in. When I look at my photograph next to this one, I notice the similar compostition within them both. In Morris' piece, there are highlights and lowlights within the chair. This helps with putting across the point that its a 3D furniture piece as it makes it deeper that it would be as one straight colour. There's a similar point in both of our pieces which is a big contrast against one side of the chair and the background light. In the top right hand corner of my photo it's very bright and white which has a deep contrast against the dark grey coloured chair. The same thing occurs in Wright Morris piece but it's on the other side. The one last thing I'm going to talk about is the angle of the background/foreground against the chair shapes. In Morris' piece the wall and flooring around slightly slanted down to the bottom right, the same this happens in my photo with the flooring panels and the table edge right at the front.

The last thing I took a photograph of in the cafe was the wall. I'm the sort of person who likes pattern and texture so therefore when I saw this wall I was imediately intrigued to see what it would look like on camera. The picture was originally a brown/cream colour but I thought the shadows of the bricks woud look quite effective in black and white.