After researching about William Eggleston and learning about why he took his sky images, I decided to do a shoot of my own of the sky and clouds during the sunset. I choose this time of day because the sun effects the sky by creating different colours which is a beautiful thing to capture on a camera. There are many different abstract shapes and textures that are created.
I edited the images using photoshop because I wanted to bring out the natural colours that were created. I am very happy with my result and believe it goes very well with my project because I am capturing something that happens everyday, but we tend to ignore or not notice. I have managed to capture something insignificant in a beautiful way.
COMPARISON
The image below is one of the edits from my photo shoot of the sky during evening time. Its an image of a cluster of clouds captured in front of the dark blue sky behind. There is little going on in the image which is what makes it beautiful because its simple yet powerful at the same time. I really like the colours in the image because they have a subtle warmth within them created by the sun setting. This is the main difference between mine and Egglestons. My image is darker and more atmospheric because of the time of day the image was taken. The clouds contain a yellow and pink tinge which makes the image more visually interesting for the viewer. Eggleston’s image has less contrast of tones between dark and light. It also has contains less of a range of colours.
