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Module 9: Combination
While this photograph was very different than the others I had presented in this course, I found that this was my favorite combination of pictures I had ever taken and edited together. In this photograph I intended to show the dream of a young woman being with her soulmate trapped and stopped by her current relationship and societal standards. I used some of my friends from school and my dorm bathroom to create the first image. I tired to make the lighting in the bathroom extremely yellow and dirty feeling. I wanted my two subjects to feel bigger than what the space was allowing them to be, almost as if the room was enclosing around the female subject. The photograph I laid over the base photo was one I took of the female subject, with another female subject, at a beach. They were playing in the water and running back on a cement path that was covered in water. I wanted to capture the dream that was the moment, the way they were having fun and the peace it omitted to not only them but to onlookers as well.
The way in which the photograph of the beach almost looks projected onto the walls of the shower shows how encompassed she is with this daydream, or the dream of her soulmate. The way in which it covers everything as a filter makes it change how the viewer sees the world they are in, showing them how the female subject sees the world.
When editing this photographs together I wanted to keep both the darkness of the base photo, and the dreaminess of the layered one. This was difficult to do but ultimately taught me a lot about balance, and how colors work together to create a photograph that is aesthetically pleasing. I really wanted to create the dream of my subject and show how it is unobtainable to her in a new and unique way. I think with both my editing and the strong compositions of both photographs, their coming together really worked well in the story I was trying to tell, both in terms of them being able to stand alone as parts of the story by themselves, and them working together in a way in which they equal there very own part of the story when together.
Playing with the camera and figuring out how to capture both a natural moment taking place and one that was staged was fun. It really helped me work on my artistic intuition as well as my directing capabilities. I think pairing the two really help the story come to life as well. Overall this is one of my favorite edited pieces.
I do believe this picture is a work of art, or that it is artistic because of the intention and story behind it, as well as the time and care I took to create it as if it was a painting.
Module 9: Combination
While this photograph was very different than the others I had presented in this course, I found that this was my favorite combination of pictures I had ever taken and edited together. In this photograph I intended to show the dream of a young woman being with her soulmate trapped and stopped by her current relationship and societal standards. I used some of my friends from school and my dorm bathroom to create the first image. I tired to make the lighting in the bathroom extremely yellow and dirty feeling. I wanted my two subjects to feel bigger than what the space was allowing them to be, almost as if the room was enclosing around the female subject. The photograph I laid over the base photo was one I took of the female subject, with another female subject, at a beach. They were playing in the water and running back on a cement path that was covered in water. I wanted to capture the dream that was the moment, the way they were having fun and the peace it omitted to not only them but to onlookers as well.
The way in which the photograph of the beach almost looks projected onto the walls of the shower shows how encompassed she is with this daydream, or the dream of her soulmate. The way in which it covers everything as a filter makes it change how the viewer sees the world they are in, showing them how the female subject sees the world.
When editing this photographs together I wanted to keep both the darkness of the base photo, and the dreaminess of the layered one. This was difficult to do but ultimately taught me a lot about balance, and how colors work together to create a photograph that is aesthetically pleasing. I really wanted to create the dream of my subject and show how it is unobtainable to her in a new and unique way. I think with both my editing and the strong compositions of both photographs, their coming together really worked well in the story I was trying to tell, both in terms of them being able to stand alone as parts of the story by themselves, and them working together in a way in which they equal there very own part of the story when together.
Playing with the camera and figuring out how to capture both a natural moment taking place and one that was staged was fun. It really helped me work on my artistic intuition as well as my directing capabilities. I think pairing the two really help the story come to life as well. Overall this is one of my favorite edited pieces.
I do believe this picture is a work of art, or that it is artistic because of the intention and story behind it, as well as the time and care I took to create it as if it was a painting.