It's kind of like Tetris

Originally I was drawn to this building by the words, but I noticed that all the windows created these weird rectangular shapes. All together, they're really geometric. It made me wonder exactly who was designing the windows, who thought it'd be a good idea to make them all different. It's funny too because I have always seen this building in passing yet I never really paid attention to something like this until I took a photograph of it.

Intense Yet Lazy

This was another one I thought was kind of humorous because right next to this lady who's so intense about reading her magazine is this other lady who's just lazing away. They're somewhat like opposites: glasses vs no glasses, thin vs heavy, engaged vs asleep. I think I would like to try and find more photo opportunities like this that have some kind of quirkiness to it.

Contemplation on a Bridge

This one was caught while walking across the Manhattan Bridge. When I was walking over the bridge, there was this guy just standing there. People passed by him and he didn't even notice, he was perfectly still almost. As I passed him by he didn't even notice I stopped right behind him and began shooting even though my shoes squeak when I walk. I just thought it was kind of sad looking. I also thought it was appropriate to do it in black and white because it was dreary that day and it added to the atmosphere of the moment.

Hitting a Creative Wall

This photograph was kind of funny to me. It's a logo on a bicycle lane which is running straight into that wall of snow. It's the way the wheel is weathered and crashing into a snow wall I guess. You can put captions on it and it'd be a small comic.

Super Heroic

I took this picture while crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, towards the Manhattan side. This was really interesting to me because of the colors on the building. I noticed that the lower section isn't really built, it's a large tarp that's colored to look like the side of a building. As the wind blows it with the sun shining against it to create this dramatic lighting, it looks almost like a scene out of a comic book. I feel like all it's missing is Superman or something and it'll almost look like an illustration.

*edit : Correction, upon closer inspection I think that's actually what the building exterior is supposed to look like as I don't remember it actually fluttering in the wind. Also you would think that if it had moved in some of the other shots I took of it, one of them would have a motion blur of some kind eventually.

In the beginning...

Hello, I'm a student of New York City College of Technology and a freelance illustrator who is very much enjoying my time in photography for Graphic Arts with Prof. Reed! This is the first time I'm really working with photographs so this is somewhat different for me, especially since I'm used to just drawing out things and using photos as reference material; not taking them myself. Usually when I think about images, I think about how it would look in as an illustration and hopefully I can apply this eye to the way I take photos. Hopefully, this careful examination of framing and composition will make me not only a better illustrator, but a photographer and designer as well.

This photo was taken when I was walking by in Chinatown. It felt like there was a story here, two chefs just lounging around in front of a church? They must have been cutting pork all day long and now they for some reason took refuge in front of a place where people find refuge. I love images that tell a story.

This happened right next to those two guys. This woman passed by and she stopped at this stop sign. She just stood there, almost like what the sign said to do. Ironically down the block on the upper right there, there's also a sign that says no standing anytime. So is she confused? I also liked how saturated the red color in this photo is. There's a lot of it, just reds and grays.