Assignment 4 Final Pieces
Ahoy there classmates! It's about that time again to do the pre-crit post to the blog. I suppose I'll get right into it. This left one is my favorite conceptually. It can be taken as both funny and serious, and to be honest, I don't care which. It was a bit of a challenge to shoot with the self-timer, especially the pants. To shoot them, I had to hold onto my ceiling beams, shirtless, and pray that I could keep my balance in a running pose until the shutter snapped (I looked really stupid). Cutting the lower half off of me wasn't nearly as hard, I used the poles in my basement to hide most of my legs, and just patched the rest out. I might still reshoot those legs just to get the lighting right. Anyway, my expression is a bit goofy, but I think I managed to capture the emotion I was aiming for.
This second picture is a reshoot. I originally perched on top of a parking structure and was shooting cars from an aerial view. It didn't allow for great lighting and the cars kind of all muddled together. I decided to shoot on the ground, making the cars recognizable and I came out with a much better composition. I got a lot of weird looks from people driving by, but they were worth it. This prompt also made me realize that there are A LOT of silver cars out there. C'mon people, get some personality. Edit: I'm sorry if you drive a silver car.
I wish I took more advantage of this assignment taking place over Halloween , but I did manage to shoot my roommate a little in his wicked Link costume. I wanted a twist in it however, and what not a better way than to have him be playing the game himself. I want the photo to be more fun than meaningful, but I can't help but feel a bit somber about it. As he looks at himself, he could be trying to relive his past, perhaps he's a much more washed up Link now. But maybe I'm just being ultranerd, too. I did add the health and magic bars to push that idea, but I dropped using the whole interface. That cluttered the frame up quite a bit and cheapened the piece as a whole.
Finally, I wanted to try to recreate the Fight Club movie poster. I was apprehensive to do the poster prompt for a while, and was even wishy-washy during the whole process. I found the recreate to be much more challenging than I originally anticipated. I wish my models looked a little bit more like Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, but then again, if the world was full of Brad Pitts and Edward Nortons, we'd all be in trouble. This is also my first attempt at integrating typography into photography. I obviously had other type to model off of, but I really enjoyed the process, and I'm thinking of implementing it into the next multimedia piece as a design prompt. That's all I really have to say about it, I hope you enjoy the work. I've posted the actually poster below so you can be the final judge.
Ahoy there classmates! It's about that time again to do the pre-crit post to the blog. I suppose I'll get right into it. This left one is my favorite conceptually. It can be taken as both funny and serious, and to be honest, I don't care which. It was a bit of a challenge to shoot with the self-timer, especially the pants. To shoot them, I had to hold onto my ceiling beams, shirtless, and pray that I could keep my balance in a running pose until the shutter snapped (I looked really stupid). Cutting the lower half off of me wasn't nearly as hard, I used the poles in my basement to hide most of my legs, and just patched the rest out. I might still reshoot those legs just to get the lighting right. Anyway, my expression is a bit goofy, but I think I managed to capture the emotion I was aiming for.
This second picture is a reshoot. I originally perched on top of a parking structure and was shooting cars from an aerial view. It didn't allow for great lighting and the cars kind of all muddled together. I decided to shoot on the ground, making the cars recognizable and I came out with a much better composition. I got a lot of weird looks from people driving by, but they were worth it. This prompt also made me realize that there are A LOT of silver cars out there. C'mon people, get some personality. Edit: I'm sorry if you drive a silver car.
I wish I took more advantage of this assignment taking place over Halloween , but I did manage to shoot my roommate a little in his wicked Link costume. I wanted a twist in it however, and what not a better way than to have him be playing the game himself. I want the photo to be more fun than meaningful, but I can't help but feel a bit somber about it. As he looks at himself, he could be trying to relive his past, perhaps he's a much more washed up Link now. But maybe I'm just being ultranerd, too. I did add the health and magic bars to push that idea, but I dropped using the whole interface. That cluttered the frame up quite a bit and cheapened the piece as a whole.
Finally, I wanted to try to recreate the Fight Club movie poster. I was apprehensive to do the poster prompt for a while, and was even wishy-washy during the whole process. I found the recreate to be much more challenging than I originally anticipated. I wish my models looked a little bit more like Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, but then again, if the world was full of Brad Pitts and Edward Nortons, we'd all be in trouble. This is also my first attempt at integrating typography into photography. I obviously had other type to model off of, but I really enjoyed the process, and I'm thinking of implementing it into the next multimedia piece as a design prompt. That's all I really have to say about it, I hope you enjoy the work. I've posted the actually poster below so you can be the final judge.
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