Song Post

I chose the song "The Suburbs" by Arcade Fire. It's actually something we analyzed in depth in my English class. While the song may sound somewhat bright and happy, when you delve into it you come up with three significantly darker themes: isolation, uniformity in society, and finally, a transition to escape. For isolation I used a simple black and white shot. It's hard to explain, but I really feels the image captures the emotion. For uniformity I chose one of my old quadtychs, in which I used four very similar images to form a collage. For escape I chose a picture of Carlos running toward's light, though I kept it as a dyptych to stay true to the song's major theme of uniformity in society. The shots are in the order that they are described.

Class Review

For Alex I focused on his usage of individuals set against plain backgrounds, and more simplistic colors and editing techniques. 

For Carlos I really wanted to make a .GIF, but things didn't work out. So I used this motion shot of him, a sort of homage to his GIF work. He used a lot of black and white and simple shots, much like this one.

For Chaun I tried to create a slightly more unique portrait, representative of her varying and changing style. I wanted the background to be a bit more dynamic, and shift away from just basic black and white editing.

For Ian a did a close range shot, as he loved working with minimalism and focusing on small details.

For Johanna I wanted something vibrant and colorful, yet somewhat simple and focusing on the individual in the photo.

Sam himself told me to shoot him full body, and then I focused on editing in a manner similar to his unique style. The noticeable borders, dark colors, and generally dark theme of the photo were similar to Sam's work.

For Sasha I shot a blurred motion picture, which was her most prevalent theme throughout her work.

For Tom I wanted to emulate his shoe series, while also incorporating his more aggressive and colorful style.

Abstract Series Project

Here's a draft of my series project, abstract photos. It's a continuation of a series that I worked on in depth earlier in the year. Because of this, the main challenge was finding a new way to approach this concept to ensure my photos didn't become repetitive. I also incorporated some of the editing techniques I played around with during our experimental sketchbook project.

Text Images

This is a draft of our text images project. The concept is simple incorporate text into our images. I mostly used quotes as any individual wording I used came out somewhat corny. This was definitely one of our more difficult projects yet was something totally unique to everything else we've done. Click on the images for an enlarged version if you're struggling to read the text. 

Grids

This is my final draft of our grid project. Grids are a similar concept to triptychs but each collage contains at least four images. The challenges were the same, but with what I learned during our triptychs project, this set was easier and hopefully came out better.

Triptychs

This is my final triptychs post. Triptychs are a trio of images meshed into one. We were looking to create a flow between the images, but not just two images directly linking into each other. This concept was a little bit difficult for me at first but I ended up approaching through a number of different angles and eventually coming up with a solid set.

Experimental Sketchbook Draft 1

First draft of my experimental editing project. The idea is taking old photos and using new editing techniques. No set goal, just trial and error.

Original:

Edit 1: Crop, Circle Splash-Multiply-Radius, Gritty

Edit 2: Crop, Sepia, Boost

Edit 3: Crop, Crystalize, Posterize

Edit 4: Crop, Infrared Film, HDR-ish, 1960's

Original: 

Edit: Heat Map, Fancy Focus