Golden email #18: Top 3 images from Red Velvet's "Birthday" photobook

I wanted to upload all the photos from Red Velvet's "Birthday" photobook to show them and talk about them, because I think they're cool, but I probably shouldn't because then what's the point of buying the photobook if you can find all the photos online anway? So as a compromise, I'll upload my 3 absolute favorite photos from the book only, and talk a bit about each of them.


#3. All the other photos in the photobook have similar themes that tie them together, but this one stands out and stands on its own. Red Velvet is just standing in a cool building, looking out. If that isn't good photography, I don't know what is.


#2. This symbolizes the whole photobook and its details and colors. Why talk more about it? Just look! Doesn't this have details and color shades to investigate forever?


#1. Doesn't this look like something? Like something that IS something? Doesn't it look like an album where some band used a photo of an unknown girl for the cover, that people keep bringing up as "that" album cover of a great album, that has an unknown girl with a mysterious and captivating look on it? I think it does. This is Joy from Red Velvet during one slight moment of a photoshoot amongst other photoshoots, but it's also THAT image of THAT girl that people keep talking about.

The first half of the photobook has a similar setting and color theme like picture #2, and the second half is more like picture #1. The second half is more simplistic, with symmetric shapes, a clear foreground and background, and sharp colors that contrast each other nicely. But the first half has so much details, different angles, unusual colors and unusual combinations of colors that I get stuck watching them and thinking about them forever. The color themes of those photos are unique to those photos only. Every single color in those photos are only in those photos.

/kbrecordzz, 2024-04-10