The first image is a man jumping by Henri Carter Bresson
The image is in black and white and therefore uses no colour but I don’t think that it in anyway takes away from what the image is anyway because the colour would be dark and grey this image was taken in paris at Gare Saint Lazare train station just after it had stopped raining.The lighting in the image is brilliant because the cloudy sky means that the perfect reflection can be seen of the girl without a disturbance of brightness from the sun. The image here is probably one of the first examples of people waiting for and exact moment before taking a photograph. “There was a plank fence around some repairs behind the Gare Saint Lazare train station. I happened to be peeking through a gap in the fence with my camera at the moment the man jumped”. This images seems as if it were instantaneous and wasn’t planned. The subject in the images is blurred and un focused I feel that this really ads to the image because it allows you put yourself in the shoes of the man because at some point in our past we all jumped in a puddle when we were happy.
The second photo Apollo 11 crew members capture mankind’s first physical brush with the moon, July 1969.
The use of colour is really powerful here because the American flag is the only vibrant use for the image everything else is grey and black. The lighting technique used was very unique in this situation as the astronauts had no idea how the images were coming out as digital screens on cameras were so they shoot the image shortly after landing where the suns reflection of the earth shines on the moon giving off light. The camera controls used seem so be a hand held shot taken from the lander. This images is very powerful because it’s the first time anyone has stood on a surface that isn’t the earth. The man in the image had the weight of the world on his shoulders as he placed the flag in the moon.
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