This week in open studio I investigated multiple layers in photoshop. My original plan for my photo shoot this week was to take images of sets of three objects with a fourth outside object. Instead, I ended up taking photos of incomplete sets of three, like these elephants. I really like the use of multiple layers because it helped me with my theme of "different perspectives." It takes a couple moments for the viewer to interpret the layers and what they are, as if they are looking through a screen. It was helpful to use photo shop for this, but in the future I hope to have finished products that are only one image with little editing. I still need to figure out how to take raw photos with good lightings and such. I also want to expand my subject material so as to create intriguing photographs that make people think based on the actual content, not just the technique.
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I spent the majority of this week experimentally editing the photos I had taken over the weekend. A lot of my photos had odd lighting because they were taken outside, so I played a lot with contrast, luminance, and saturation. I also altered the clarity of different parts with the adjustment brush so draw focus to different sections of the images. My hardest struggle was with composition and trying to crop the images with a good ratio to include only the parts of the image that I wanted. My favorite images did not have a lot of subject material so I decided not to use them. I realized that I need to include specific objects in my compositions rather than random settings and circumstances. I also realized that I want to use photoshop more in some of my images rather than lightroom so as to combine multiple images.
Over the weekend I hoped to begin my theme of irony in photography. I initiated this process by setting up scenes of abnormal situations in white technology and nature interact. This was the first time I did a photo shoot of artificial scenes that I purposely manipulated. I really enjoyed trying to figure out how to make the scene work and how to achieve my vision. I think the most successful photos are the ones with lightbulbs, because the objects are the most recognizable and most obviously ironic. From here, I hope to edit some of the photos, mostly with lighting and cropping. The lighting outside is difficult to control, which is something I ran in to while taking these pictures. I might use multimedia in some of these pictures, or combine images, but overall I like how they turned out.
Topic: I plan on shooting photos around a central theme of new perspectives, which consists of both physical perspectives as well as subject irony and diversity in subject material and composition; I hope to incite humor and insight in my work.
Photo Shoot Plans: 1. Technology misplaced in nature 2. every day objects with alternate lighting 3. unusual monochromatic situations 4. portraits: skewed perspective of only part of body 5. portrait: action shots and additive subject material (water, sparkles, etc) 6. irony with size (Tower of Pizza effect) 7. cultural portraiture- candid and in natural setting to show unique perspective of identity 8. wide angles of average objects 9. reflections Padlet URL: https://padlet.com/wall/5oo98wszpgoz In this piece, an image of a sailboat, water, and the horizon has been cut up and formed into a three dimensional re-imagination. the horizontal colorful strips of the sail have been a hot-glued to the ends of tubes of paper which stand perpendicular to the plane of the image; the same has been done with pieces of the sky. This makes it so that the entire image cannot be seen all at once unless viewed from a single perspective directly in front of the piece. I used shape to convey the importance of perspective. By cutting out the specific forms of positive and negative space created by the sailboat, horizon, and ropes, I showed a clear delineation of shapes in the piece. By subsequently raising these pieces to varying heights above the plane, I show the importance of perspective. The entire context of the picture only aligns when the viewer stands directly in front of the piece. Like a puzzle, the different pieces only fit together from one perspective, giving a new dynamic to the concept of viewing flat images. I like to think that the undulating levels of the pieces of sail suggest the presence of wind and movement. The raised chunks of sky also suggests how the "sky" seems more present in the windy setting of a sailboat while the water, remaining on the lowest level of the piece, seems out of reach. By generating the demand of a single perspective, I almost force the audience to view the image in the same way I see it. However, I also communicate the necessity of understanding differences in perspective. It is considerably difficult to see each and every component of a situation at once, even in something as seemingly straightforward as sailing, which I feel I conveyed in this piece. Overall, this piece ended up fitting my original goal. I think I could have fit the individual components together in a more organized manner, as the sail and the sky are not quite aligned. I didn't have time to properly mat the piece, which gives it a sloppy finish. I also could have made the tubes of paper raising the image pieces more inconspicuous and uniform by painting them the same color as the mat board. However, I think it conveys my idea nicely and is fairly neat, concise, and aesthetically coherent. |
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