This week in open sutdio I worked on finishing my final portfolio piece. I mainly focused on editing the photos I had taken over Christmas break. A lot of these photos had an annoying yellowish glow to them because I had photographed them in a yellow room. The majority of my editing invovled counteracting the yellow wall betewen the collage of photos using an editing brush in light room. I then matted this piece on a regular matt board, one of the few pieces I have done like this. In the end, I think that my experiments with different uses of photography has been very fun and insightful, and I have discovered new creative ways of thinking about making and viewing photography.
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This week in open studio I started working on my final portfolio piece. My last three photo shoots had a lot of good photos in them, and I have been working on editing most of those photos for the last several weeks. While the photos turned out very well, they each had little-to no content, or if they did the content was cliched. I wanted to use multiple photos at once in a creative way so I decided to edit each of them uniquely, completely independent of each other. I then printed them out (each a small square). I'm going to cut them out and arrange them in different patterns to photograph over Christmas break. I'm thinking I might focus on lighting and maybe have tinted lighting to unify them all. I also might use the images to create patterns within them- like connecting lines- or I might stick the squares of paper to a 3-d object and take a photo of that. I'm very excited to be able to use all of the photos I like while also fulfilling my theme of "different perspectives,"
This week in open studio I worked on finalizing one of my matted projects then I edited a lot of my photos form the last several photo shoots. I experimented a lot with editing in light room with clarity versus contrast, epspecially with water and nature images. With my matted piece, I installed LED lights in to the top of my image box, which I had been waiting to buy. I already have 7 completed pieces for my portfolio, so for the next two weeks I'll be working on my last piece. I hope to take images over the weekend of monochromoatic situations then next week I will print out the images onto small squares. Over Christmas break I will arrange these squares in different patterns on different obects with different lighting so I can have some images to work with after break.
This week I did a lot of experimenting with editing the photos I had taken over Thanksgiving break. I figured out a cool way to make the images look filtered with tinting and temperature in light room. I had a lot of images from the river as well so I edited one of them of rocks and matted it. I think I will use some of my other images from this last photo shoot but I want to matt them not 2-d.
This week in open studio I started a new project with the images I had taken over the weekend. I had a lot of photos of these stacks of rocks at various stages of assembly and disassembly. I decided to edit three photos in the same way. One was of the entire stack, one was of the stack partially taken apart, and one was of a pile of rocks. I printed them all on to 8 by 11 glossy paper and tried to figure out how to matt them. I decided to matt them together on a large cylinder to emphasize the cycle they represent. I made a large tube out of poster paper and reinforced it with cardboard circles. I then spray-painted it to look finish. I still need to glue the images on to the exterior of this cylinder, but I think it is going well. I plan on taking two photo shoots over thanksgiving break but I also think that my last photo shoot had some really good photos that I want to use in the future.
This week I didn't really like any of the photos I had taken over the weekend. I didn't know what to do so I looked back through my old photos and found this image of hawks in my neighbor's tree. I remembered some nature photos with odd contrast so I tried that. I really like the result but I thought it was boring. I found another picture of the same tree and printed it on a clear paper. i plan on making these two into a cheesy photo box that looks like a museum exhibit. I am very excited This week in open studio I did a lot less editing than the last two weeks. I tried to take images of photos that showed the world when people aren't there. I didn't like a lot of the photos I had taken over the weekend, so I decided to just focus on this image. I think the lighting worked very well so I didn't have any trouble with that. I actually edited it in both photoshop and light room. I think that the magnet selection tool works better for making sharp delineations, so I used that to alter the background. Then I used light room to change the contrast and vibrance a little and make a vignette. I really liked how easy that was, so I'll probably use both photoshop and lightroom in the future. Next week I'm planning on taking photos of normal objects in abnormal perspectives so I'll need to focus on good lighting as well.
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. 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.
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