Wide-angle: An overview of the attic where I usually entertain myself during the outbreak of virus. It has become kind of our activity room because we can’t go out.
Zoom: Lately I’ve had more time to sit in this hanging chair and enjoy reading.
Focus: Part of the mask storage which is necessary to daily life recently.
Crop: Out of boredom, I started playing the guitar that I hadn’t played for a longtime. Life is meaningless without music isn’t it.
Bird’s eye: The staircases connecting the attic and downstairs. Entertainment upstairs, daily life downstairs.
Worm’s eye: You can see the windows at the other end of the hall through the table. This is almost the only space for our recreation recently.
First person view: Table tennis became the only sport that we can enjoy.
Skewed angle: Pebbles on the balcony. They were left there uncleaned because we can’t go out and buy the plants that match them.
Perspective: Looking out from the balcony. There weren’t pedestrians and cars on the street. It’s silent outside.
View frame: There are only residential buildings’ roofs and bare branches looking out from the doors of balcony, which gives the sense of desolation.
Chiaroscuro: Me and my shadow in the storage room. The epidemic taught us to enjoy loneliness.
Seriality: A sequence of photos of table tennis. The contrast between the giant white background and the small table tennis ball created lonely sentiment and a feeling of space.
Description of the “perspective” photograph:
The technique “perspective” gives the audience a broad and far-reaching view to show the background or atmosphere of the environment. By using this technique, the photograph showed the view of residential areas under the invasion of virus from both direct and indirect dimensions. The empty street without pedestrians directly demonstrate people’s fear of the virus contagion visually. And the bare branches, the dark light, the gloomy sky, all set off a lifeless environment, indirectly demonstrating how much negative impact the outbreak of crisis had on people’s daily life.
Name: Liu Fanyu
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Your title “Trapped in attic” is somewhat an oxymoron. It conveys a sense of imprisoned living yet your images show a bright, airy and spacious room taken during the day. OR perhaps you mean this to be an intentional twist of being trapped in one space but yet being liberated from your usual routine of work, sleep, study.
Your ideas are clearly articulated through the text. You have some well-executed images, in particular the First person view and the 3 photos in Seriality. The image of pebbles on the balcony is more a tilt angle than a skewed image. In a skewed image, the subjects and perspective lines are usually distorted.
The hanging chair in your “Zoom” image appears as if a miniature or toy – this is typically known as a tilt-shift technique.