POTENTIAL DIRECTION 1...
Photomanipulation & Lighting
These two images taken from my trials are examples of using light to create powerful elements of uncertainty and using photomanipulation techniques to create a sense of confusion and things being out of context. As a potential direction, I plan on combining these two techniques using them in harmony, to compliment each other and support my themes. |
Using these images as a starting point, I would like to build on the present ideas by taking a series of photographs to be displayed in frames. The photos would depict people in situations which are out of context. The audience should be able to get an idea of this, while still not having complete knowledge of the situation. To obtain the intended levels of mystery and doubt in the audience’s mind through the images, I will use lighting and take advantage of shadows and silhouettes. My series would include 6-12 photographs, each in a unique setting, but with the same person/people doing the same or similar things. The subjects of the images will be performing a range of things, some mundane and others more radical, and throughout the series, the settings they are placed in will appear to make it progressively more difficult for them to do these things. The settings from image to image will put the subjects through a range of different states as they battle on.
Being consistent with certain features in each photograph (the same person/people), the audience should be able to connect with the series the more they look at it, simply through their own recognition of these features from when they first saw the series. |
While my exploration proposal states that my primary focus will be movement, through this potential direction I will be able to achieve my intended “focus on human beings, and the physical way they move when in different scenarios as well as how they are psychologically affected by the constantly changing representations from the media.”
I believe that creating a series of photographs which will depict just that, is an ideal way to encapsulate part of my chosen theme of misrepresentation of people in society and through the media. I would like to focus a lot more on my compositing skills inside Photoshop to create more photorealistic effects. More refinements will need to be made in the way I use scale and shadows to appropriately incorporate, overly, and mix elements into other images. I will need to pay more attention to lighting and creating more dynamic backlighting which shows depth to foreground elements that are almost completely in shadow. |