Connecting Essay - Colour

This is a photograph by Jim Turner which heavily features the formal element of colour.

This image makes use of lots of saturated shades of yellow.

This is one of my straight images for colour. Like the image by Jim Turner pictured above, there has been use of lots of saturated colours. However, my image has a range of colours, including different shades of saturated colours and some muted colours, whereas the Jim Turner image only uses yellow, green and blue.

Like the Jim Turner image, my image makes use of the rule of thirds composition rule. As you see, both have placed the subject along the vertical line to the right, with the subject and the background meeting at the top right point.

They also both use a narrow depth of field. Jim Turner's image keeps the flower closest to the lens in focus, the two behind it semi in focus, and the rest of the flowers in the background behind them are out of focus. In my image, the bicycle tyres are all in focus except for the one closest to the camera, and everything behind the tyres in the background is out of focus. 

The image by Jim Turner uses a large amount of very light tones to create a very tonally rich image, however it lacks when it comes to a wide tonal range. My image uses some very light tones, however, it also uses some darker tones, particularly on the floor and in the background, therefore my image has a wider tonal range than the one by Jim Turner. 

They also both make use of textures. My image contains some very smooth, slick textures, which are shown on the bicycle tyres and in some of the bicycle frames in the background. It also makes use of some rough, bumpy textures on the floor, therefore, there is a contrast in textures in my image. Jim Turner's image also uses a contrast in tones. It uses some smooth textures, which are shown in the petals of the flowers and it also shows some very bumpy textures in the centre of the flower.