For this assignment, I wanted to capture a scenic photo of Lincoln Center, a place that remains in the background everyday as I run errands, go to school, meet up with friends, and much more. As I prepared to take a picture of the front of Lincoln Center, none of the pictures seemed interesting enough for me. My focus was too large–I could not pinpoint an aspect of the place that I wanted to capture. When I returned home, a look through my window caught my attention, as it provided a more realistic glimpse into my everyday perspective.
Looking through my foggy window into the back of Lincoln Center has been my view for the past five years in Manhattan. The back of Lincoln Center is a much less glamorous view of such a famed building, as most photos of Lincoln Center consist of its large and extravagant features. In order to emphasize a more gritty, flawed point of view, I tried to focus on an imperfection on the building. Instead I noticed a paint splatter on my window, and decided to focus on that. I used the Rule of Thirds, and placed the paint splatter on the upper left corner of the frame, which allows for the viewer to not only notice the imperfection in the frame, but also its background: a seemingly dreary building filtered through a foggy window.
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