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