Vintage Subject

Introduction
As well all know photos must have a subject, a meaning to it. Weather that is just to advertise something or create questions in the mind of the viewer. This is a big subject within photography and needs to be seriously looked at when ever composing a photograph. 
This process is known as subject matter. 

What is a vintage subject?
With choosing a vintage subject you need to research what works and what doesn't. But with the vintage subject all you really need to do follow the popular crowd in to what is trending in the photos. A good place to look for this is Instagram which is a new application which allows you to take images and make them vintage. When looking around the instagram website I found that the best things that work for this is stuff that is from the time that the person wants to portray, if that is the sixties it might be a camper van or the most common is cameras from the time. 


Picking My Subjects
When picking my subject for my photographs I will be assessing what place in time I want to show as this is will be the main message about the image and what is want to say. If I do not do this then my images will be of a poor composition as it will be a inconsistent theme to the image, therefore confusing the viewer which will then render the message and images useless. 

Example

This images is something typical of the work of a point and shoot on Instagram as it has the aspects which are easy to like as it is currently "trending". First you are blasted with these odd colours which suggest cross processing which was originally a mistake made in the 60's which has never lost it following. When looking at the camera you see a common shot a a 45 degree angle of a camera still seeing the lens. I feel the reason for this type of shot being popular is due to the leading line the oddity of the camera being in the shot. Leading to why would someone do that and with the shallow depth of field it is hard to not look at the camera as our eyes are naturally attracted to sharp focus. Even though the sharpness attracts us it also pushes us to wonder what is out of focus this combined with the fading strap really adds a sense of uncertainty to what we establish and what we guess. By doing this effect with the offset colour balance you create a uncertain image which creates questions on the message.