I made this piece with two different photos of the same trees in my neighbor's yard. The first one I took in the summer and it is closer up to show the vultures roosting in the top branches. The second photo was taken a year earlier in the winter from my porch with icicles. I edited the vulture photo to make the contrast higher and the background darker to emulate some black and white photographs I had seen that seemed almost like infra-red images. I then printed the icicle image on clear paper and the vulture paper on smaller matt paper. I framed the larger piece and created a box to set the smaller piece in the back. This makes it so you have to look through the trees to see the roosting vultures.
I tried to make the set-up seem like a cheesy exhibit at a museum. The dark background and accentuated highlights makes the vultures seem hyper-realistic while the dead trees give the suggestion of an artificial setting that someone intentionally set up to provide the vultures context. I really like the contrast and I think that the branch texture unifies the piece very well. It is clear that the setting is continuous. I think the end product communicates my idea very well. It is evidently ironic that people try to exhibit things in their so-called "natural habitat" which ends up making the entire experience artificial. While the subject itself is very interesting, the presentation can cloud the viewers perception. I think I could have made the vulture image a bit lighter because right now it is difficult to see very well within the box. I also think it would have been cool to over-edit the front tree image, such as making it hyper-saturated and unnatural colors. The viewing box I made turned out better than I thought it would. I'm pleasantly surprised that my last photo shoot didn't go well or I wouldn't have looked back through my photos to find these.
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