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"Painting Expectations"
For this photograph, I emulated Julia Margaret Cameron's photography style. Julia Margaret Cameron had many close-up photographs which I had "somewhat mimicked." Furthermore, Julia was an expert at manipulating light and shadows. So, I used a desktop lamp and set the lighting to dim (but not too dim), set the lighting to be slightly low, and used the environment I was in. Julia used a dark room or a garden (?) as her background. So, I used a dark room with blue walls and took it in the evening. Using my phone, I utilized the portrait feature to give it the slight blurriness to emulate the stylistic qualities of Julia's use of emphasized blur. In addition, I tried using a bit of the soft focus that she had in her photographs. Despite her using many negative photographs, I've decided not to, since I wanted to express the colors in the photograph. Using the featured photo edits provided by the phone itself, I lowered the exposure between -70 to -80, the brilliance to -45 to -50, the highlights between 15 to 20, shadows to -6 or -7, contrast 2 or 3, brightness at 30, black point between -60 to -65, the saturation between -24 and -30, vibrance to 100, warmth somewhere at 55 to 60, tint either at 45 to 50, the sharpness at 61, definition at 100, noise reduction at 100, and vignette at 50. I'm not much of a professional at this and didn't have any sort of knowledge on what those features do, but I tried to mimic the features of the photograph to be similar to Julia Margaret Cameron. Therefore, making the lighting and shadows to seem more dramatic. She used props as a type of imagery to create a story. The props I used were a paint brush and towels as a make-up brush and cloaks. Most of her photographs were vertical compositions, so I imagined the rule of thirds and placed myself and little sister near those points of the method. I really admire Julia's stylistic qualities (e.g., close ups, dramatic lighting, subjects weren't the ideal people in the photographs, selective focus, implemented stories in the photos, use of negatives, accidental soft exposures and emphasized blurs, etc.) that stand out to give the romantic literatures, and some royal core vibes or other vibes. One of her qualities in her works that inspired this photograph was her use of allegory, narratives, and literatures. The photographs of hers gave a story for us to implement and understand. So, I used those qualities of hers to make a story of my own in this photo. The photo is called "Painting Expectations." This is kind of like a reference towards the Disney movie, Mulan. Where many expectations were placed onto her to bring honor to her family. In this photo though, it was similar to that. The little girl on the bottom left side (my little sister), is the one who has to hold onto all the expectations given to her to make her family proud. The paint brush that I (the one on the right side) held, is used as imagery and a metaphor that I am the one placing expectations on her and is expecting great things about her. It illustrates families that expect many things from their children, which was my intentions of this photograph. I really love and feel inspired by the beautiful qualities of Julia's photographs.
"Painting Expectations"
For this photograph, I emulated Julia Margaret Cameron's photography style. Julia Margaret Cameron had many close-up photographs which I had "somewhat mimicked." Furthermore, Julia was an expert at manipulating light and shadows. So, I used a desktop lamp and set the lighting to dim (but not too dim), set the lighting to be slightly low, and used the environment I was in. Julia used a dark room or a garden (?) as her background. So, I used a dark room with blue walls and took it in the evening. Using my phone, I utilized the portrait feature to give it the slight blurriness to emulate the stylistic qualities of Julia's use of emphasized blur. In addition, I tried using a bit of the soft focus that she had in her photographs. Despite her using many negative photographs, I've decided not to, since I wanted to express the colors in the photograph. Using the featured photo edits provided by the phone itself, I lowered the exposure between -70 to -80, the brilliance to -45 to -50, the highlights between 15 to 20, shadows to -6 or -7, contrast 2 or 3, brightness at 30, black point between -60 to -65, the saturation between -24 and -30, vibrance to 100, warmth somewhere at 55 to 60, tint either at 45 to 50, the sharpness at 61, definition at 100, noise reduction at 100, and vignette at 50. I'm not much of a professional at this and didn't have any sort of knowledge on what those features do, but I tried to mimic the features of the photograph to be similar to Julia Margaret Cameron. Therefore, making the lighting and shadows to seem more dramatic. She used props as a type of imagery to create a story. The props I used were a paint brush and towels as a make-up brush and cloaks. Most of her photographs were vertical compositions, so I imagined the rule of thirds and placed myself and little sister near those points of the method. I really admire Julia's stylistic qualities (e.g., close ups, dramatic lighting, subjects weren't the ideal people in the photographs, selective focus, implemented stories in the photos, use of negatives, accidental soft exposures and emphasized blurs, etc.) that stand out to give the romantic literatures, and some royal core vibes or other vibes. One of her qualities in her works that inspired this photograph was her use of allegory, narratives, and literatures. The photographs of hers gave a story for us to implement and understand. So, I used those qualities of hers to make a story of my own in this photo. The photo is called "Painting Expectations." This is kind of like a reference towards the Disney movie, Mulan. Where many expectations were placed onto her to bring honor to her family. In this photo though, it was similar to that. The little girl on the bottom left side (my little sister), is the one who has to hold onto all the expectations given to her to make her family proud. The paint brush that I (the one on the right side) held, is used as imagery and a metaphor that I am the one placing expectations on her and is expecting great things about her. It illustrates families that expect many things from their children, which was my intentions of this photograph. I really love and feel inspired by the beautiful qualities of Julia's photographs.