Connecting Essay - Shape

This is a shot that incorporates the formal element of shape that was taken by me.
Below is a shape based shot that I have found on the internet. I am unsure who took this photo.


These pictures bare similarities in some ways.

For example, they have been shot in similar ways. They have bee taken at a canted angle, and roughly the same angle. They also both use signs to present shape. However, my image was taken using landscape orientation, whereas the other image was taken using portrait orientation. My image has also been taken from a very close up perspective, meaning there is very little background in the image. This is different to the other image I found, which was taken from a far less close up perspective, and has a foreground, mid ground and background.

Although they both feature shape, they each use it in different ways. My image only incorporates one shape in very close up detail. It shows a square with rounded edges, however, some of the corners of the shape have been cropped out, making it an irregular shape. On the other hand, the image I found online to compare to has several uses of shape. Although it uses a road sign to create a rectangular shape, similar to mine, the picture has some shapes featured in the background and mid ground too. There are more four sided shapes shown on the zebra crossing on the floor in the mid ground, and some more displayed as windows on the buildings in the background.

They also both make use of other formal elements. For example, both contain some saturated colours.
My image incorporates lots of blue, with saturated shades of blue on both the sign and in the sky. Overall, I would say the other picture contains much more bright and saturated colours than mine. For example, the sign shown in the image is a saturated shade of green, which is more saturated than the blue on the sign in my image. The blue sky in my image is a muted shade of blue too, whereas the blue of the sky in the other image is very bright and saturated.