Final

I’ve always been attracted to light as an individual element, as opposed to a secondary element. That the light itself can be the focus of a piece rather then a variable we use to enhance our subject. I’ve tried to capture light in a way that would make it equal to an object. I looked for natural light that had taken on defined shapes rather then light spilling across a surface, because the more contained the shape the more tangible it became.

Reality

In these photos I've tried to find a way to use light to manipulate reality. The way color in light mixes is different then how paint mixes and so does not match the usuall rules we are taught. By shining three different color lights and blocking one you can cause not only colored shadows but shadows of the 'wrong' colors. I'm also playing with the idea that a shadow of a thing is as specific as the physical thing itself. We will link the silhouette to the physical object. So in a way, a shadow is as much a 'thing' as an object even though its not tangible.

Social issue

In my photos I've tried to focus the viewer on the role advertising plays in our lives. In the first two photos I'm trying to show how fake these women really are. I'm literally doing this by showing the fact that they're reproductions, printed onto a wall and cardboard, and so trying to push the idea that women like these are not real. In the next two photos I've tried to show the juxtaposition between the 'real' people in the spaces, and those in advertisements. The woman on the wall and the woman pushing the baby carriage look like they're from two different worlds, as do the two men. Overall I'm trying to reveal the lie of advertising.

Landscapes

In these landscapes I wanted to take photos that aren't literall landscapes but still refrence landscapes. I choose the two first photos, which are iron filings on top of magnets, because they resemble a forest, the horizon line being implied, but what they are is ambiguous. I also choose them for the way the filings move, due to the magnet field, in a sweeping motion towards the viewer.

Portraits

The main focus of both of these photos is the way the light falls across the figure. Overall I like the casual feel they have. Both photos were altered on photo shop. The main changes were increased saturation of warm colors within the skin and clothes to further separate the figure from the cold background.

This was an experiment in photoshop where Megan and I both fixed the same photo to see how different people see color differently. Below is the original photo.

This is the photo after Megan has altered it.


This is the photo after I've altered it.

Color