Connecting Essay 1

Here is an image of Tower Bridge in London at night. A you can see the bridge is raised up and the lights are on which gives the image a contrast of the light bridge and the building and the dark sky and water both above and below the light. The photographer has also taken the image from far away and at a lower angle. I think that must have used a high ISO. The image is rather interesting because the only light sources used were manmade light sources. In this image they must have taken it when there was still some blue sky so for them to make the sky darker they must have brought that exposure down. This makes the image look like it was taken more at night then anything else.

Here is my image. I decided that I would like to get an even stronger contrast of light and dark, so I decided to go later at night so the sky was even darker and the lights looked even stronger against the black sky. I also decided to take my photo closer to the bridge because I preferred the image this way. My image is un-retouched so a true representation of the night I visited. I think this works better then editing it because the image is rather interesting as it is and the only light source is the bridge so this would have been what someone would have seen when they looked at the bridge at the time I took the photo.

The connecting point for my image and the image I found was the contrast between the obviously enhanced image suitable for a photo library and my image straight out of the camera. The other connection is both of the images are of tower bridge and also taken at night only using the lights in the area of Tower Bridge. This makes both images rather interesting because both of them show what sort of lighting there would be at Tower Bridge if you visited it at night which looks rather interesting.