Banning
We have all experienced a place or situation we wanted to photograph because of the atmosphere, there is a feeling about the time or place that we want to capture. It’s a hard thing to do. You can’t just record it, you must interpret it. Sometimes this can be done by focusing in on a detail, perhaps there is a contrast within the scene we can exploit, or maybe some graphic interpretation will get the story across.
This abandon set of shops has a lot of potential and I can see why the photographer wanted to capture the feeling of this architecture. The photographer has taken advantage of the exaggerated singe point perspective to lead our eye along the face of the building. The pastel colors and poorly maintained aluminum awing takes us back thirty years to when this was a viable business district.
I would like to recommend to the photographer that they try a little more interpretation with this shot. Perhaps get down lower, or higher. They might consider cropping or finding interesting detail within the scene. We should avoid recording the scene and try finding a way of emphasizing and integrating the atmosphere.
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