Type & Photography Reverse Engineer Post

for Visual Communication Class Reverse Engineer Post

This photo is taken by Liam Doran published at Powder Magazine.

Depth of Field

Depth of field is the range of in which a photograph is perceived to be in focus. The two circles in the above picture are more in focus than the trees in the back and they are blurry than the trees in front.

Leading Lines

Leading line is one that draws attention from one point to another and when the leading lines are gathered in one place, a vanishing point is formed. In this photo, the slope of the snow mountain and the snow storms form a leading line to attract a person who is skiing.

Type

The title, the sentence above title, and a first sentence of the paragraph are Sans Serif. They are bold, have no strokes, and shows the clarity and modernity of the text.

For the paragraph, it is a little hard to see but I would say this is an old style serif. Serif refers to a form in which typography protrudes from the ends of the strokes forming letters and symbols. It shows the small x-heights and looks like handwriting.

Photography

These are the images that I taken and mimic the original photography in the magazine.

These three pictures used leading liens, the first one is mimicking the snowboarding on the slope. The second photo created leading lines with the handles and the glimpse of the stairs below and the third photo mimics the cross overs of snow, which is the top and the bottom of snow.

Conclusion

The leading lines in the magazine’s photograph naturally attracts to skiers and made the subject of outdoor sports in a short moment. The depth of field in this photo was used to vary the focus of the trees on the slopes of the front snow covered mountains and the trees of the back mountains. Through the distance from the object, the focus is on the tree in front of it, making it look clear. I tried to show different feelings of leading lines through my pictures.