inspired by William Eggleston

After watching the William Eggleton video documentary 'The colourful Mr Eggleston' I found out a lt about his past and what type of work he does and the in which he uses his photos to show how colour has changed throughout the years, this is shown in the video when people only thought that good, professional pictures are to be in black and white.  This is when William Eggleston introduced colour photographs in order to get people to appreciate and understand that colour photographs, after Eggleston introduced this people didn't like his work as they thought that it looked 'Unprofessional'. Most of his work is of normal, everday objects that we don't neccassarily pay attention to, but after he has photographed these it shows that you can get a good picture from such simple objects. Also he crestes portraits which are not like the normal pictures you would think when someone mentions 'Portraits' He doesn't construct his people, he take them discreetly without the person knowing, this makes his work even more unique and creates a mysterious feel to them.

For this task we were to produce a number of four photos which were inspired by the work of William Eggleston which we had to base on either composition, colour or theme. I instantly had an idea for  colour, due to it being the middle of Autumn there are many magnificant colours on the trees and bushes outside. I think that this could show that coloured pictures are important as you wouldn't get the full effect of all the different colours if it was in black and white. I also thought that these would relate to Egglestons work as they are just normal objects that people see everyday but don't neccassarily pay that much attention too, then once photo it draws people into it.

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I think these images are really effective in showing the importance of coloured images as you can see the contrasting tones of the leaves and it really shows off how beautiful the season is, which would be near impossible if they were in black and white. Also as mentioned briefly above, these normal everyday objects are not what people pay attention to on a day to day basis. I also like how the images are natural like many of his photos, none of them look as if they have been set up and they have just been randomly shot.

I do really like how my images have turned out and I think that they represent the colour theme well as there is a lot of contrasting colours. I also like how each picture varies in tone, with some of them being a more reddy colour and others more sublt oranges and browns. All of the photographs I think are good quality and it also shows clearly the detail of the leaves. I also think the way that I have related it to the season, Autumn now. I tohught that it was a good chance to capture some really fasinating colours, and it shows the importance of coloured photographs to capture object like this.

I thought that this task was quite difficult in itself as its quite hard to do as I think that having to have your work inspired by other makes you think aboiut what you have to do more.I think by having the specific guidelines it made it a more set task and harder to gather ideas, although I think that these were good areas to focus on because once you had a brief idea what you were going to do you could expand it and get some good images. As Autumn is probably my favourite season I really enjoyed going out and getting the pictures and seeing all of the different colours.