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

Light

This photo is different from the two that follow. Its taken in the same place, but the light has a different quality. It isn't as unnerving, its almost inviting. I really like the fact that the light is a strong blue, it has a clear color.





















In this photo I like the somber warm color of the walls and how it plays against the cool light spilling through the door. I also like that the eye is lead to the door by the banister and the warm light rising from the right corner.























This photo is my favorite. I love the play between the strong light and the dark wall facing the viewer. Its has the same inviting quality as the previous photos but is much more unnerving.

















This photo was taken in the subway. I feel that the subway has a tainted sense to it, the smell, look and overall grim of it. I feel that the light playing against the peeling paint captures this quality.

Abstract

I feel that an abstract photo should focus on formal elements, such as light, color, and composition. And so by focusing on these elements present the viewer with an interesting moment which would of otherwise gone unseen.






I choose this photo for the juxtaposition of the straight shapes given by the shadows against the organic shapes of the paint.



















I Choose this photo for the play between the flatness of the surface and definite shape of the tape and small ball.













This photo drew me for the shifts in color between the areas covered by the shadow and those in the light.














I was drawn to this photo for the play between the ball, lonely with a confined shape, and the surface it sits on, the complicated happily chaotic paint.













I choose this photo for many of the same reasons I chose the others, but mainly for the fact that its a combination of all I've said above. It has the play between the clean definite shape (ball) and the haphazard surface, and the shifts in color due to the shadow which is itself a geometric shape resting on organic.

These images were chosen because of the way the light plays within them, the repetition and variation of the different boats or the slight oddness of the subjects such as the key hole which seems to hold the sea and the cat which stares at you.

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