Collage of Street Photos

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A black-and-white collage of people from the streets of Petchaburi in Thailand. The source photographs are below. I like all these source images in themselves but I wanted to try to give a quick impression of the highlights of the set, which basically means the people, particularly their faces. In some ways it actually gives a better feeling of the town's busy market area than a group of stills can. In the market in real time your eye inevitably jumps around from face to face.

Collage gives a lot of scope to play around with size, perspective and placement, and can be a challenge to make it work as a composition. But it also allows a joke or two. The overloaded motorbike on the sidewalk, for example - something to expect in this country. And I love using sections of a scene as a window into another scene like the hoop on the main man's shirt, which adds an interesting new dimension.

Next I'll see how well it works in colour.

Collage of Street Photos | Ecency