Glenn McD
Traffic Light, Porto
2024: A photo each week No. 13 of 52.
I can't say my traffic light photograph was planned beyond wanting to put principle to practice for Stephen Shore's physical, depictive and mental levels. I walked around the city of Porto wondering if I would be successful and this scene simply caught my eye. I don't know the exact message but it has to do with encroachment: the imposition of the modern into an attractive cityscape. I am not trying to make a value judgement but rather to embed that extra understanding into the image. I could have changed my vantage point and instead taken the postcard shot but that in itself would have been a deceit. Once I realised that was the image I was making I tried to point the viewer in that direction. The active frame is intentional, all colours but the red light have been desaturated and the title refers to the traffic light specifically.
In principal it has everything wrong. The red light draws the eye away from the centre of the frame and from the main subject which in itself has been degraded in terms of saturation, contrast and central positioning. I post it here to gauge people's reaction.
Traffic Light, Porto
2024: A photo each week No. 13 of 52.
I can't say my traffic light photograph was planned beyond wanting to put principle to practice for Stephen Shore's physical, depictive and mental levels. I walked around the city of Porto wondering if I would be successful and this scene simply caught my eye. I don't know the exact message but it has to do with encroachment: the imposition of the modern into an attractive cityscape. I am not trying to make a value judgement but rather to embed that extra understanding into the image. I could have changed my vantage point and instead taken the postcard shot but that in itself would have been a deceit. Once I realised that was the image I was making I tried to point the viewer in that direction. The active frame is intentional, all colours but the red light have been desaturated and the title refers to the traffic light specifically.
In principal it has everything wrong. The red light draws the eye away from the centre of the frame and from the main subject which in itself has been degraded in terms of saturation, contrast and central positioning. I post it here to gauge people's reaction.