For this project, I really wanted to do something that it's seen a lot for night photography but also have that feeling of night photography usually has. My idea was to use buildings with lights in their windows at night and then fill them with subways pictures. There is a level of voyeurism to this. I wanted to create the illusion of nothing is different, so unless you really look into the work that one would notice the difference. This idea stemmed from one night at my partners house and how so many people were looking into his windows of his apartment. There is a sense of lack of privacy that large cities and buildings have that with the addition of public transport, it follows through creating this idea of city life, people are just a drop in the sea. Nothing gained, nothing earned.
I started this edit with pictures of a office building in uptown. I was honestly very lucky that this building still had her lights on. From there, I inserted my own images as well as some images of pexel to create these moments of movement. I color corrected quite a bit of things as well as messing with perspective to get the angels on the windows right. One of the challenging things was getting pictures that would fit within these controlled spaces. Whereas, yes, I can manipulate any image into a spot if I really wanted to, but it would lack the organic feeling I was trying to achieve here.
pexel links:
I started this edit with pictures of a office building in uptown. I was honestly very lucky that this building still had her lights on. From there, I inserted my own images as well as some images of pexel to create these moments of movement. I color corrected quite a bit of things as well as messing with perspective to get the angels on the windows right. One of the challenging things was getting pictures that would fit within these controlled spaces. Whereas, yes, I can manipulate any image into a spot if I really wanted to, but it would lack the organic feeling I was trying to achieve here.
pexel links:
https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-in-a-subway-photographed-from-the-outside-17301775/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-sitting-inside-a-bus-using-cellphones-8164001/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-sitting-in-a-subway-19086018/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-sitting-inside-a-bus-using-cellphones-8164001/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-sitting-in-a-subway-19086018/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/subway-train-in-motion-9390058/
Jordin's work really stood out to me as I scrolled through the blog. They took a different approach to the project than others did when approaching this project. The more I looked at the composition the more I noticed. I can tell that they experimented with long exposure using it to create movement within the buildings windows. Many people used the long exposure as the base photo but Jordin approached it differently and used bits and pieces to create a different story in every window.
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