By constantly experimenting with little planning, I was excited and relieved to give myself mindless playtime. It felt relaxing to not have a set goal other than “create, create, create.”
My final work looks like two book pages with a divided portrait spread out on opposite pages. I accidentally created the look of a book by blurring the dividing diptych line in photoshop. I combined all three methods, by first ripping my portrait in half, setting one half aside and then crumpling and ripping the other half before stapling it back together. I then photographed both sides separately and put the together in Photoshop. My only problem was having to choose which one was most successful out of all variations I created. I still have many other versions I love as well, but settled on this one as my final because I liked how I could assign meaning related to the human experience of “being broken apart and put back together” -- a common theme in my work.
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I transformed these everyday objects by photographing them from angles we don't normally view them from, such as from below or at eye level of something that is normally below us.
I think my most successful was of the curtain from below because the fabric makes a teardrop shape and it is illuminated from above. My least successful is the door handles. They were a bit too obvious and didn't really transform. I went to Sea Bright, NJ over the weekend, so I decided to practice shutter speed settings on beach themed subject matter. I photographed the ocean water coming over the rocks with a slightly slow shutter speed (1/13) and had to use a high f-stop (f/32) and ISO 100 to keep the image from overexposing (and it still did a little).
At sunrise, I wanted to capture the mist coming off of the waves, so I set the camera to a low aperture (f/3.5) with an IS0 of 200. I then used 1/250 of a second to capture the water in full detail. I used rule of thirds in the images with water as well as negative space with the seagull. I was hoping to have more of a concept within the works, but without my tripod, my options were limited to hand held methods. *Update. I was not happy with what I originally shot, so I took more slow shots of the shoreline at Kueka Lake and fast speed shots of my husband cleaning up the yard with the leaf blower. This image was shot using a handheld panning technique. The camera was set to IS0 100, f/22, and 1/20th of a second. Moving the camera in a slow upward motion while exposing the shot created this painterly effect. I liked shooting both fast and slow speeds with the bubbles, but am more satisfied with the slow speed shots because they capture the movement of the bubbles and abstract the image. I love how some of them look "magical" or electric due to the shine and light dragging that is happening on the surface of the bubbles.
My concept was about chronic illness and taking medications for an extended period of time. I used as many pill bottles as I could find with their warning labels facing the camera. I focused on one label that states: Keep out of reach of children | May cause dizziness. I used a shallow depth of field (f/3.5) to emphasize the labels on the one bottle and blur out everything else, possibly making the viewer experience the dizziness warning.
Focusing on objects in the background was more difficult for me, mostly because I was overly concerned about how the objects in the foreground were looking. I enjoyed switching the f/stop when photographing through the fence looking down at the creek below. These shots best demonstrate my abilities with controlling depth of field and changing focus between all three grounds.
I did not have a lot of opportunities to experiment with "framing" a shot with natural elements creating the frame. I don't think it was easy, but the point of view shot "becoming the object" was my favorite shot (through the water glass), but I don't recommend doing this out of fear of dumping water on your camera. Focal Point as a compositional element was easiest considering you are most always focusing on some kind of object in the shot.
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