Rut Blees Luxemburg
My Image
Both my image and Luxemburg's focus on nighttime inner city landscape photography and whilst the images are not of a pastiche style they bare some similarities.
In both images urban inner city life is featured with Luxemburg's image featuring an inner city tower block and my image featuring a pub near Trafalgar square. These images both represent life in a busy city in an effective and engaging way.
The colour scheme of both images is also similar with both images featuring a palette largely comprised of highly saturated red, oranges and yellows (these colours represent the vitality of city life) as well as dark black tones which provide an interesting contrast. The fact that each of the images features light even though they occur at night time demonstrates the fact that the city never truly sleeps.
These images also have a similar appearance due to the fact that they have been taken in a similar time period and have therefore had access to the same equipment such as editing software. I implement Photoshop CC 2014 to my image in order to increase it's saturation which I feel has given it a far warmer feeling.
The composition of both images varies with Luxemburg's image featuring a head on image of a tower block providing neat squares a geometric pattern whereas my images is a side on angled image. Another difference in composition is that my image features people whereas none of Luxemburg's work does, this helps to convey the isolation that some can feel in the city.
If I were to create a pastiche of Luxemburg's work I would focus more on finding true isolation in my images as well as attempting to take more head on images with interesting composition such as geometric patterns or reflection of signs in puddles.
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