The Best of My Three Series Drafts

These are the best of my three drafts. I think they exemplified the style of the photographer I studied, Josef Sudek. These elements include depth, city scape, sepia tone, and the usage of water.

Series Draft 3

In this final draft of recreating Josef Sudek's style, I focused on several qualities which included depth and the rule of thirds. Sudek also liked to take photographs of simple objects, such as flowers, eggs, and glasses of water. I tried to emulate this aspect of his photographs by using a ball and a coffee cup, carefully trying to put them on the left third of the frame. He was well-known for taking pictures of the streets of Prague, so I tried to get building and street shots of the neighborhood.

Series Draft 2

For my second draft of imitating Josef Sudek, I was very eager to take shots involving water something Sudek enjoyed doing, as well as exploring depth in building scape shots. Sudek was well known for taking pictures of the buildings and streets in the city of Prague, and he especially loved taking pictures with the sun out. The weather for the past two weeks was very cloudy and rainy, so I was able to get the pictures of water I was looking for but I was unable to get a lot of photos that had the sun's light. For the pictures that tried to convey depth especially the buildings and the  plants on the wall , I tried to get an angle that was not perfectly perpendicular in order exemplify leading lines. Sudek liked to take pictures of water in glasses, but I did not have any glasses to use, so I just went with photographing water on the window hoping to recreate the same melancholic mood that was in his pictures.