Above is a photograph from Tom Pope’s series entitled ‘Weak Anarchy’. Pope is hiding behind a tree. All that can be seen is a glimpse of his face and body, however it’s very blurred and he looks unidentifiable. The picture seems to have been taken during the night as there is a lot of bright white light reflecting from the leaves. Also, the light looks artificial. There are many leading lines which are very opposite to each other. First of all, the bricks are horizontal and therefore my attention goes to the edges of the photograph. The leaves from the tree are pointed in all directions and direct me to look further up. Since the brightest place of the image is Pope’s head, that’s the first place that I’m drawn to.
For my response, I’ve emulated his picture in a very similar manner. Whilst in France, my group and I, spontaneously decided to recreate this image. A girl can be seen hiding behind a large tree. Amazingly, there was also a high wall under the girl, which was very similar to Pope’s one. In my responses I have edited by doing several processes and have kept one in colour and one in black and white.
Above, is my first response to Tom’s Weak Anarchy image. I did some general edits to brighten and saturate it. I think that it has a very interesting rule of thirds. The shrubbery leaves the whole bottom third of the picture clear and occupies the top. Much like in his picture, my one exhibits very strong and bright sections of white light. The natural sunlight shining on the green leaves draw my eyes to those places and I think it adds intrigue to the photograph.
As my second response, I have shown a very similar outcome. This one, however I cropped this one in a farther away fashion, to show the whole environment around it. I made this one black and white to vary my edits. I think it brings out the shadows better and shows the highlights and contrasts more clearly. At first it’s hard to spot the person, which is why I believe it’s more interesting to look at. I like how the spaces in the tree’s create pockets of light on the floor. It almost looks like fallen blossom. The rule of thirds is quite unbalanced. This is because the main focus isn’t placed on the key lines of the rule of thirds. Therefore this is even more interesting and for me, the ambiguity of not fitting into the perfect grids, is great.
I would like to respond to his work. I’ll be looking at people. My inspiration is the picture above. The man pictured is doing ‘the walk cycle’. Walk cycles are created frame by frame. Essentially they continue forever if you keep going back to the beginning of the cycle. Only six frames were used for Muybridge’s one above, therefore the full walking strides aren’t completed. Having said that, walk cycles are really difficult to capture. You must have precise and advanced knowledge to create one. 
