WistedtTove-Friedlander

For my postmodern assignment, I decided to emulate the photographer Lee Friedlander. I liked how he went on a road trip and took pictures from his car to show the American social landscape. It’s like he had three pictures in one, the rearview image, the front window, and the side window. It's almost like a collage but not, very interesting. To capture this kind of image I took my car and drove around the neighborhoods where I live, but it was hard to drive and take pictures at the same time I don’t know how he did it. Maybe he stopped and parked his car. Instead, I asked my husband to drive and I could concentrate on taking the picture. I took many random snapshots to try and get an image like Friedlander’s, but it was hard to get interesting subjects in all three views. I finally decided on the image here were I think I captured interesting views in all three windows. It showed the social landscape of today with the cars, all the signs, and the palm trees California is known for. I used natural lighting for my image, I took the picture in the middle of the day when it’s the lightest. I like how sharp the image in the rearview window came out and how that is the first picture you look at. I took this picture with a Sony 6000 and edit it with my iPhone program. I added a silver-tone filter and adjusted the exposure a little for the palm trees to be more visible. This was an interesting assignment for me, when driving around trying to take a picture you actually pay attention to your surrounding which you usually don’t do. I saw things I never really saw before; I definitely would like to take more pictures now.

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