I'm very interested in the turn my project took this week. The photos that I thought would sure become my final three turned out just not making to cut when I started editing. Simple things I wouldn't catch when simply looking at the screen of the camera: like being a teensy bit out of focus or having too high of an ISO. The peer review also affected my decision. Some photos I was simply going to throw into the discard pile got flagged, and it forced me to take a second look at them. Without further ado:
This piece was done as a response to the fluorescent lighting prompt. It was an interesting angle, and I tried thinking of interesting ways to attack the scene in editing. I wound up desaturating the image pretty harshly, but pulling back some color in the books to provide an atmosphere of imagination. Perhaps the subject is revisiting his childhood through excitement in the library. Regardless, in what started as a quick fix to get a prompt done turned into a piece I'm really happy with, and didn't exactly expect to turn in.
My second piece was a response to the monochromatic prompt.I decided to shoot in the hamster cage because of it's typically vomit-inducing colors, leading me to think I could find something interesting. The stairwell was nothing but blue, and I got some bizarre compositions because of it. In the peer review, someone mentioned that the while balance was too blue, which got me to rethink the picture. I started to run in a different direction and experimented with cross-processing, a technique created by developing film in the incorrect chemicals. Cross-processing is even easier in the digital world, mostly playing with curves and the works.
My last piece was in response to high-contrast lighting. When I began shooting though, I got really interested in the shadows my brother was casting on the walls. I opened up the frame a little bit to include the shadows as part of the subject and came out with a half-way decent composition. I played around a little bit with the exposure and the saturation, but out of all the editing, this photo was left the most untouched.
I know I said this in class, but comments are fun. I love what you did with the monochromatic photo. The yellow tinge makes it feel old-timey. You framed the image really well, too, and the darker P and that box make it well-balanced hue- and value-wise.
ReplyDeleteAs for the fluorescent lighting image, I do really like it, but the one thing I find really distracting is the graininess. I'm guessing this couldn't be helped because the lighting was probably pretty poor in the library, I just thought you'd like to be aware of this.
The one with Brett: It's not a bad image, but I'm left asking, "what the point?" Maybe I just don't get it. I think these photos are great to take to learn lighting and stuff from or to apply them to something, but as a final image, I don't know.
Anyway, I can't wait to see what else you do!