mayteana colon weekly post 15

Fred Herzog 

1) Fred strived to take highly pigmented color photos that were unposed and had historical value. He used a Kodachrome ISO10 camera. His images are of everyday city life. He explores the balance of light and color very well in his images. The images are saturated with color and vibrancy.

2) In the first image it seems as though he caught his subjects off guard. They do not seem to notice that he is taking an image. The picture feels real and genuine. He has the subjects in the foreground in focus and the back out of focus drawing more attention to his subjects. It has a shallow depth of field so he probably used a more open Fstop. The second image shows two pair of legs. The image has that same saturation of color like the first image. The reds really pop in this picture and it contrast well with the blue in the girls socks and the yellow of the ladies skin on the left. It seems like he focused on the bottom of their legs because the girls skirt appears to be out of focus or this could be due to movement. The last image looks like an unposed portrait. The man and his daughter seem to be un aware of a photo being taken. You can see a repeated color skeem in this image as well with that red and green in the background.

3) I chose these images because i found them interesting. I have recently explored the concept of taking unposed portraits of people without them knowing they are the focus of my lense. Fred's work is a good example for what I have been trying to do. I enjoy vibrant colorful pictures as well and so i find his highly saturated pictures alluring.