The main message I feel is being portrayed in this screen shot from The Big Combo is fear of the unknown. The photo seems well-balanced in terms of photography; there is something in each third of the image (wheel-barrow, woman and man). Every object is in a different sector of the area, being close to further away. The is a slight imbalance in the angle the shot was taken, slightly near the ground. There is a large contrast between the diffused fog and the sharpness of the silhouettes. The black and white film adds to the stress as well as the slight angled frame of the opening they are standing in. Plus the use of black and white film makes the positive and negative of the fog and people more blatant. The negative space is unknown and covered in fog. This shot was put together in a very sharpened way, they could of easily made it a no angle image but the imbalance makes its more eye-catching.
STANDARD CHARACTERISTICS
Shadows
Silhouettes
Subjects not looking at the camera but off-center
Singular light choices (like use of a street lamp or car headlights)
Use of “unusual” angles (high and low angles)
High contrast
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