The black light shoot we did in class was definitely one of the highlights of the year. It was well planned and very fun and was a great opportunity to plan photos on the spot. It was a fun day overall and I want to try this at home over the summer. My subjects were Maria and my friend, Kayla.
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My comic strip is about a Sunday in the life of my car (Charlie). It has a very sarcastic tone for comedy because I felt that a normal script would have been too boring. I took most of the photos throughout the week to avoid any unfix-able errors when I actually put them all together. The actual process of doing the comic strip was quite simple; I made the canvas really big and drug all the photos onto one background, added speech bubbles and text, and then cropped it down. I really enjoyed this project and may do more comic strips in the future.
Sustenance can be taken in many different ways. It can be something needed to stay emotionally stable or something that is needed to stay alive (i.e. food/water). When I hear the word sustenance, I think about having a single activity, person or object needed in order to complete your day, or even to fulfill your life. The first photo I shot was to express not only my sustenance, but the sustenance that I share with most of the world. Leaving your house with out your cell phone feels like you've left the house without your clothes on; our phones are a necessity of our everyday life. Without them, we wouldn't know what time it is, when our appointments are, and we would have no way to communicate on social media. To express the way that one's sustenance can effect life, I created a diptych. The first half show the stress and disorder in your head before you get to complete your sustenance and the second half shows the way you see the world when you have completed it. This specific photo shows a certain sustenance--having to take medications everyday. If you have daily meds, (depending on their purpose) you may need them to stay alive. My last photo shows my mother's sustenance. She. Loves. Chocolate. It doesn't quite matter what brand, but if she were to pick a favorite, she'd pick Cadbury. She's always said, "A day without chocolate is a day not complete."
My inspiration for the recreation of Caravaggio's work came the moment i found it on 'google images'. I knew it wouldn't be too complex to recreate, but complex enough with my options for subjects. The original subject was supposed to be my brother, but he refused to shave his jungle of a beard. Next up was my best friend. I managed to get the hair and makeup just right to mirror that of the young man that Carravaggio painted. Her hair consists of about 50 bobby pins and on her face is a thick layer of foundation and contouring to accent the features of a male. The photo was taken in my spare room at night so that i could control the source of light(which was a single dresser lamp that I'd taken the shade off of). Around her shoulders is a plain white bed sheet. The basket however is half filled with kitchen towels to create an illusion that the entire thing was full of fruit. I enjoyed doing this project and i am considering trying it out with other paintings. My inspiration photo is the photo below. Photo from : www.themasterpiececards.com
The first photo was inspired by what I thought flight while dreaming would be like because I'd never had a dream of flying before. I wanted to interpret the actual act of dreaming about flying. The second photo was inspired by those people on Fremont that 'levitate'. I wanted to imitate this same style by having her levitate over a road photo i took in the Valley of Fire.
my process for this project is quite the story. i began with just the photo of the B&W house photo but then decided in the end that i was too similar to Maggie Taylor's work instead. so to jerry uelsmann-ify it, i meld an apple into the bottom of it to represent the downstairs of the house; hence the door on the apple. this is another one i did, but it looked waaay too similar to the original one that Jerry Uelsmann did. and it did seem to need a third photo, which was required.
This photo was pieced together in the style of Maggie Taylor. I took 5 separate images and put them together in photoshop to create the final photo. The landscape photo and the photo of the people was taken at the Calico Ghost town in California, the sand stone photo was taken in the Valley of Fire, the photo of the rabbit was taken at the Clark County heritage museum, and the garnish is just a piece of paper that i crumbled to give the final image an aged look.
The idea for this project did not come easily. i was unsure if certain landscapes would be too busy for the photoshoot. in the end, i decided on shooting one of my favorite mexican restaurants that closed down a while back. I did enjoy doing this assignment, as piecing it together in photoshop was interesting.
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