Kin Chan inspiration // Street

Kin Chan is a photographer off the website http://www.streetphotographylondon.co.uk who takes his images in colour. His works range from a number of different things, but the two below are my favourites of his that I took inspiration from. The top image is interesting because he took a picture from what it looks like of a corridor from the London underground system when nobody was about, by doing this the corridor looks as if its getting smaller towards the end of it. Also the lighting along the top of the corridor add an interesting effect to the image as you can see darkened rings in the corridor where the lights aren't on. The second image is interesting because you can see the panels where there's notice boards but you can't tell what's on them. Also the idea that you can see lines going through the image from how Chan has composed the image - the train tracks, the edge of the platform, the roof of the sheltered part of the platform, and where the platforms lights are; this then draws the viewers attention down those lines towards the bright sun, which looks as if its only recently rose. In the image the people are fed up waiting for a train, therefore you can see what each person does while they're waiting - for instance the man at the front is looking towards the ground with his hands in his pockets trying to keep warm, another man is looking down at his phone. 

I took inspiration from these images and therefore did my own interpretations of them, which are below.

In my opinion my images aren't half as good as Chan's because my first image has people walking on both sides of it which means I couldn't get the full narrowing corridor effect to it, also if I stood in the centre of the corridor the image would have come out much better has the central light source would have been running straight through the centre of the image which would have made my proportions much better. In my second image, I should have stood nearer to the edge of the platform of the tube station so then I could have got much more people in shot - this then would have shown what more people were doing whilst waiting for a train at Leicester Square Station. But overall for a first attempt of taking images like these in the underground, where I had to make sure it wasn't at all obvious that I was taking any pictures at all, have come out decently well. I now know from analysing these pictures of mine what I should do next time I want to take pictures like these.