Robin Michals | COMD 1340 Photography 1

Author: Justin Tarigan

Final Project Statement and Mood Board

For my final project, I am preferring to do my own theme. My theme will be Transit Subways Scapes.

My favorite interest for this project is rule of thirds and depth of field. Rules of thirds will look great on my subjects because it focuses on the subject while having a scenery background for the subject. Depth of field is useful towards subways and buses scapes. For example, I can shoot a subway photo in an above ground station. With the depth of field I can zoom in the train and having a focus of the train along the other subway cars following behind it.  If I would shoot an underground station with the train coming in, I will need to adjust the exposure of the camera to have a better light quality.

Sometimes, we do not appreciate public transit as much as for commuters. I think personally, I like public transit. There are some underrated beauty of the subway that commuters miss most of the time. It doesn’t matter where you are late to work or going somewhere to be. We are all riding the same subway car.

We all have almost the same story as commuters to get to our place and we have to look back at it. We are all there to have something to get to our destination alive. Trains come and go to our daily lives that we have something productive to do in our lives.

My photography shoots will be taken most of them in a above ground station because of the scenery that the trains go through. I will be going through different boroughs of NYC to look for places that have a fantastic scenery along with it.

Photo 1 – James Maher

Photo 2 = Emma Taggart

Photo 3 – Jeenah Moon

Photo 4 – Gary Hershorn

Photo 5 –  Osugi

Photo 6 – Chris Hondros

HW 1 – Photo Description

6th avenue subway

6th Avenue Subway which this photograph was taken at. This photography was taken by Suzanne Stein. There looks like a distressed person I assume, just sitting down on a subway bench. The train passing by is the background behind the person. Seems it is not busy at that station, if it were then it would be packed with people. I think Suzanne Stein took this picture because of how nobody would be courteous towards that person and help him. This mood shows some sad things if that person is alone. But it is also relaxed because it is one person that is in this photograph.

The image shows from the Steven McCurry video shows Fill the Frame. The object is close towards the frame. Another one would be diagonals because of the subway platform and bench facing the same angle straight at each other. Lastly, symmetry, the object is centered and it is facing towards the camera with the eye of the camera.

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