WP1: Pre-Writing Assignment 2

The photographer had a lot to decide when taking this this picture. The picture to me looks like it is arranged in a way that it looks natural. As if that is where the children would be standing in normal settings. The photographer, also had to decide weather it be in black and white or color. As you could see it was in black and white. Black and white pictures bring out different feeling and meaning to a picture rather than color does. I don't believe the pictures has been retouched or edited either. It captured the real picture as it was taken. I think that is why he took the picture from the angle that he did so that it got enough lighting so it wasn't to dark or to bright.

This picture was framed and cropped so that our main focus was on those four child. She may have left out the others because she couldn't capture what she wanted. I believe she choose to include those children because their facial expression, their appearance, and their body gestures.

The hue of this picture is obviously black and white. The picture is unsaturated. "A highly colorful stimulus is vivid and intense, while a less colorful stimulus appears more muted", and I believe this picture feels that way. Like it has captured that moment of what they felt at that moment and has frozen it. It's not an intense picture. And has a medium or normal of brightness. Its not to bright or to dark that you can't make out the object in the picture.

Colors of a photograph can bring out emotional responses or pathos in us. As it says in the book "our responses are not random but instead have much to do with what we have learned to associate with different colors". As a young child driving down the road and you see a yellow and red sign it makes you hungry for McDonald's. People have done studies to see what color's to use to get people attention or to make their point. I believe photographs do the same thing when taking photographs.