This is my form image.
This is an image that incorporates form that was taken by Julian Velez.
The image by Julian Velez has been converted to black and white, which captures a depressing mood, due to the lack of tone or colour variation. However, I have kept my image in colour, which means the mood it creates is far less depressing.
My image makes good use of texture. There are some very rough textures in my image, which are shown on the chain. There are very degrees of detail in my textures, the ones at front being more detailed due to being in focus. The Julian Velez image also makes use of rough texture on the chain, however, the chain in his image is more worn than the one in mine, therefore it incorporates much rougher, more weathered textures than mine does. This image also incorporates other textures other than the one on the chain, as wood is visible behind the chain. The wood also appears to be a rough texture, however, it has lines in the texture that give it a smoother quality, as if you could run your hand along the lines.
My image I feel also makes better use of tone than the Julian Velez one. Since I kept my image in colour, you can see a large tonal range. There are some very dark highlights on the links of the chain, with some lighter tones around the edges of the links from the light shining on the metal. There are also some very light tones shown in the background behind the chain, which create a tonal contrast between the background and the foreground. I feel that the image by Julian Velez does show some tonal contrast, with some lighter tones shown in the background and some darker tones in the shadows created by the chain, however the conversion to greyscale I feel took away some of the tones that would have been visible if the image would have been in colour.
Also due to the removal of colour in Julian Velez' image, I feel mine better shows this formal element. In my image, there are lots of muted colours that help connote the depression and imprisonment that a chain presents. There are lots of muted highlights of blue shown on the chain, which are muted because they are mixed with the shades of black.
I also feel my image was composed better than the image by Julian Velez. I used f/5.6 to achieve a narrow depth of field, so that only a very small area of the chain in the foreground is in focus. I also prefer the close up perspective to the mid shot perspective that Julian Velez has used, as I feel it lets you see much more detail in the textures of the chain, and means less background is visible to distract you from what's in focus.
