The light in this image is coming from behind the photographer and is natural light from the sun. Shadows are created from behind the two women at the front and from various other structures outside the frame and the light shines directly onto the two subjects at the front. The pattern on the central subject just behind the front two is wearing a coat which I mistook for a shadow. The contrasting tones created by the light mean it is hard to see detail in this photograph. The most obvious tone in the photo is of the cheekbones of the woman on the left and of the wrinkles of the gowns worn by the two people to the left of the woman standing to the right. Texture is hard to make out in this photograph but the most detailed, textured part is of peoples hair. However, you can only make out the hair of people on the left as shadowing pushes the dark shades back and makes them blend together so is only visible when light shines directly onto their hair. The most detail you can gather from observing their hair is that of the waves created, and how it falls. You can see on closer study of the photograph, that the coat of the woman in the middle is coarse. I noticed this because of the slight shadowing created in little clusters in different parts of the coat. The photographer uses soft focus, giving the effect that everything weaves into one another, this effect is emphasized by the grainy texture of the photo as a whole because it takes away a sharp edge that could have been gained if the lighting, focus and texture was different. The woman in the middle is the most detailed, she has the sharpest focus on her and the rest is slightly blurred and hard to identify. The soft focus used suggest that he is just one of many people passing through the crowd, nobody is looking at him and nobody is noticing him, which is strange because people react so greatly to being photographed. The blur in the photo suggests that it was taken spontaneously, while the photographer was moving. The photo is taken from above slightly. This may be because since the photographer was in fact quite a tall man, it was taken from eye level, looking down onto the people below him, seeing all that is in front of him, but still focusing slightly more on what is straight ahead, the woman in the middle. This gives us the sense that we are walking as him, putting us in his shoes. There is no centre of intrest in this photo, he wanted to include all that was directly ahead of him. The two people parting way standing by either side of the photograph create one scene, they part way, revealing another. This one picture seems like two separate photographs, as two main subjects of focus are splitting the image into a third focus. I do not believe that one could say that a photograph, whether it is black and white or in colour is any more real than the other. Black and white photographs are responses to the actual formation of light, colour photographs are our human response of viewing colour, it is how it appears to us to be, colour only exists to those who can perceive it. The benifits of colour are that it brings out depth. Colour opens us up to another interpretation of what is going on around us and what is happening in the scene, giving the photographer more possibility to change the photo. i say that it brings out depth because it gives an added level of detail, showing more tonality, clarifying shade, and giving you more information about every object in the scene.