Lauren Barrett A2 Photography Unit 3: Contrasts Connecting Essay 4: Karl Taylor’s take on new and old technology in Photography Polaroid collage from my Tech shoot Karl Taylor is a photographer from the United States, and the concept of this photograph of his was to combine the rather traditional idea behind the original telephone and the most modern, up-to-date telecommunications hardware we have to date, the iPhone. The concept is really interesting and the form is particularly useful in this photo, as the lighting and shadows show that the people are more like 3D objects rather than still images on the screen, and that they actually come out to demonstrate the idea behind the cup-and-string system. Besides this concept, I love the contrast in the black and white tones used to shoot the photo in, as this gives the mood a very traditional feel to it, whilst the selection of the red cups also gives off a modern tone. There is also consistency in the theme of contrasts as the photographer has specifically chosen one male, and one female model, as well as a black, and a white iPhone. With my photograph, I wanted to take the image itself and contrast it with the way I edited it. The concept was that I was to take a really modern-looking image, with a modern, every-day model and a modern, high-tech camera, and to edit it in a way which contrasted the themes presented in the image itself. As it was from the technology shoot, my main focus was the idea of the camera, and as the modern camera was featured in the image itself, I wanted to edit it in a Polaroid-style collage as this reflects some of the earlier stages in the development of the photography world. Colour was also important to me in showing this idea, so I gave the image a sepia filter to represent the more rustic, less-defined colours normally seen in traditional Polaroids to make