bdul R. Sharif
Statement of Intent
Final Portfolio “Like Night and Day”
11/11/09
Photo 475



Have you ever heard someone refer to the differences between two things as “night and day?” What if you were actually able to experience the differences between day and night within the blink of an eye? The intent of this photography project is to provide the viewer with an opportunity to see how the time of day can affect the mood and emotions emitted by a photograph. These photos also seek to give the viewers a sense of actually experiencing the shifting of day into night by capturing the same scenes at both the daytime and the nighttime. Hopefully, these images will give the viewer a first hand, aesthetically sound, experience of seeing time change within the blink of an eye.


One of the reasons why I wanted to photograph the same objects during the daytime and the nighttime was to document whether or not the time of day actually does change the mood and attractiveness of urban areas of downtown Louisville. Personally, I think the nighttime is the perfect time to photograph urban scenery. The darkness gives arise to the opportunity to turn streetlights that are normally bland and unlit during the daytime, into sparkling golden stars at nighttime. In addition, at nighttime, long exposures can turn the taillights of cars that are normally unattractive during the daytime, into long streaking bursts of red snakes at nighttime. This project will hopefully exhibit how transformative the power of light can be when composing a scene.

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