Image Interpretation (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

After looking at some of Henri Cartier-Bresson's street photography, we could see that he took images of everyday life and didn't ask people to pose for his images, he just took them. Taking this and his compositional techniques into account, I went around college to take some 'sneaky' photos of people. As you'll see, I also took them in Black and White because that's the colour most of Henri's images were when using his 'old film' camera.

 Here, you can see the leading line of the bookshelf which draws us into the centre of the image, where you will see more books. The main subject is of Callum flicking through the pages of the book. I positioned the camera so that the book was in the centre third, Callum in the right third and the book shelf in the left third. 

Again I used leading lines to draw people into the image. I positioned the railing  in the centre of the image to lead us to the people looking over the balcony. The two people aren't looking into the lens of the camera which makes the image more effective because Henri took images of what was happening around him and didn't get anyone to pose for his pictures. 

 In this image you can see I took it in the middle of two people having a convosation whilst buttering their scones. Again, this captures the natural life of people that Henri used to capture.

For this image I placed the man on his iPad in the left third of the image to make it look more intersting. Henri too would place his subjects in different thirds of the image.