Ernst Hass

The movement of this image is so captivating. You look at it, and you think you are looking at an actual waterfall.The color in this is a necessity because if it were in black and white, it would look like a blur of grays and blacks. The subtle blues turn into a mix of gray and white and it pulls your eye from the top left of the picture to the bottom right. The composition of it is so straight-forward something different, such as an angle change could have worked for it, but I give him an A for effort.


This one caught my eye right away because the shadow and the dark roof make a near-perfect triangle. The parts that are light look like they could have been exposed longer in order to make the "color" richer. Ir reminds me of a test strip from one of my earlier photo classes and it seems that the shadowed area was exposed for the right time, but the light area could have used ten more seconds. If that is what the photographer/developer wanted, they did a magnificent job. The photographer seemingly wants the man standing at the bottom of the picture to be small and not important to the things going on around him. Maybe he is not important in society. This picture would not work in black and white, the purpose of this picture is portrayed in the shadows and it could not be done in color.