Sam Burton inspiration // Street

Sam Burton's style of street photography fascinates me because he has captured a really different and edgy way of capturing life on the streets of London. His style of photography looks at shadows and how people can be captured within shadows, this then makes his style of photography very unique to him. How Burton has used colour to highlight his images and make them more eye catching and has images of legs being the major part of his images inspired me to capture a similar to his.

 This image by Burton is very captivating as the focus point is in the background on the three billboard images of some sort of fashion campaign. This works well because the people on the billboards look as if they are looking straight at you, added to this there's people walking along on the pavement who are looking straight ahead of them and not looking at all towards the camera. I like the fact that you have real people walking in front of people on billboards, as I find it adds an interesting effect to it.

To me this image is quite capturing from how lines are one of the main focus' of the image. The lines along the edge of the platform and edge of the train work well because they are in bright colours so are therefore very visible and eye-catching. Adding to the aspect of that you can see someone's legs walking off the train, which then ended up capturing the idea that the train is well in fact used and people are using it to do their everyday things, such as getting to work. The bright colours running throughout the image is another aspect of it which makes it as eye-catching as it is to the viewer, the bright yellow, red, blue, and white all contrast against each other - as the yellow in the image is the brightest thing there which then makes the viewer eye attracted to the image. The strong non-geometric shapes, such as the leg, are also very significant as they break up the lines that are running through the image. This is powerful as the legs are black, which is probably the strongest colour in the image, this breaks the image up in a number of ways - as all the lines along the platform are parallel to each other, then with the leg coming in at a totally different angle to that makes it all broken up in slightly different angles.

This image has been composed in black and white, so you can see the outlines of the people's bodies. There is a building in the background which is mainly glass, so you can see straight through into it. I like how Burton has made it so that the image is made up of black, white and different shades of grays. To me this image is very effective.

I have inserted my image below.

To me, this image has captured a few aspect's of Burton's images, like the second image of his that I have inserted in this post, with the train station, legs, and feet. I have also incorporated a few other things in like this being taken in an underground station, so therefore has billboards in the background. Also I took the image at the time when the train was going away from the station at high speed, this means that there is a red blur in the background from the train. The legs are all pretty blurred as well because they were walking into the frame at the right side and exiting at the left while all walking pretty quickly, this is why parts of their lower bodies are blurred. Overall I am quite happy with this image as it captures what life on the underground system is like, as well as capturing aspects of Burton's work and making my own interpretations of them.