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Here we have two pictures of very narrow and tight roads. The first picture shown is untitled by Eugene Atget being featured in the Anrold H. Crane Collection. His picture is a very low down portraying road turning towards the left which strongly shows of the houses which seem to be tall created the false sense of composition. The second picture is a road found in the middle of the way of walking on the River Thames. Instead of the road turning to the left, in this image the road has been captured being lifted as you glimpse into the distance whilst being at the bottom of the hill.

Comparing the colour, Eugene Atget image is monochrome portrait which fully complements the dark and mysterious road becoming smaller of the distance view. The subject of this image mainly seems to be of the scenery of the road and of homes but looking back at every Eugene Atget pieces of photography, he always has no people or any unwanted objects in his pictures. This really works with this photo making it creepy like a dead ghost town where there’s on one about. While in the other photo, it’s presented with full colours captured mid day on a hot sunny afternoon. Like Eugene Atget photo, it also has been taken at a low angle but being more precise of how it was taken, it a zoom close up from the other side of the road probably at 12x zoom magnification using Nikon D40 SLR camera. Which is pretty a well given shot considering on how far the lens has travelled to captured the image and still be able to record the correct colours and still be in focus. Looking more in detail of the photo now, it has a lot of unnecessary objects such as the man walking on the right walking carrying a box and the unnecessary rubbish next to him. Unlike the empty untitled photo, it has the all expected objects to be clearly seen as part of the image. Also it creates the sense of danger of how the sign of danger is presented right in front of the foreground on the left. Overall, both have a same danger like atmosphere very well picked up when looking at the two photos, being presented a portrait viewing angle adding to that sense of dark feeling. 

— 2 years ago
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