concentration final

Fresh Start

Well, over the break I did some brainstorming and took some pictures, and this set inspired me more than my previous ones did, so i decided to just run with it. these are a few of the photos I took, and I'm still working on editing and deciding how to order them.

Next

This is the next photo that I plan on mixing with the following, in the same way I did the other black and white one.

I think these will go well together because in the photo the woman looks old and kind of wrinkeled and the building are old and weathered.

Whats Next:

Next, I'm planning on creating more images like the one in my last post, and experimenting with some in color as well. I also want to try creating diptychs with some of them too, maybe with an image similar to one of the layered photos, or maybe of something else with a similar texture.

March 7th

In this image I first took the portrait photo and enhanced the contrast to create brighter whites and darker shadows. Then I selected the most highlighted part of the photo and allowed it to show through to the image of the graffiti art behind it.

ORIGINAL PHTOS:

Experiment

This photo is one of my experiments in photoshop. The original photo is of a graffitied brick wall and I used photoshop to make it transparent to show the portrait through. The photo used contrast and value to emphasize the eyes.

Learning to edit

These are more photos I've edited and I am working on learning how to overlay portraits with other backgrounds, like this top and lower photo.

Trains, Tracks, and Graffiti (part 2)

More photos from this weekend...

In this photo I used photoshop and created two layers with copies of the photo. I made one saturated and contrasted, to be the "living" person. The other photo was made dull and pale, to be the "dead" person. then I erased away some of the living person to "decay" the face.

Trains, Tracks, an Graffiti

This weekend I went down to the train tracks and took photos of trains, graffiti, and the train tracks. This is one photo I took of a train. I edited it 6 different ways, and I am still deciding which one i like best.

Signs of Luck Research

I wanted to expand on one of my previous ideas, which was photographing signs of luck. Here is my brainstorm list:

• Friday the thirteenth is an unlucky day 
• A rabbit's foot brings good luck 
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away 
• To find a four-leaf clover is to find good luck 
• If you walk under a ladder, you will have bad luck 
• If a black cat crosses your path you will have bad luck 
• To break a mirror will bring you seven years bad luck 
• To open an umbrella in the house is to bring bad luck 
• To find a horseshoe brings good luck 
• Step on a crack, break your mother's back 
• You can break a bad luck spell by turning seven times in a clockwise circle 
• Garlic protects from evil spirits and vampires 
• Our fate is written in the stars 
• At the end of a rainbow is a pot of gold 
• Clothes worn inside out will bring good luck 
• Wearing your birthstone will bring you good luck 
• If you blow out all of the candles on your birthday cake with the first breath you will get whatever you wish for 
• To have a wish come true using a wishbone, two people make a wish, then take hold of each end of the bone and pull it until it separates. The person with the longer end gets his or her wish 
• An itchy palm means money will come your way 
• A beginner will always have good luck: beginner's luck 
• A cat has nine lives 
• Eating fish makes you smart 
• Toads cause warts 
• A cricket in the house brings good luck 
• Crossing your fingers helps to avoid bad luck and helps a wish come true 
• It is bad luck to sing at the table 
• It is bad luck to sleep on a table 
• After receiving a container of food, the container should never be returned empty 
• A lock of hair from a baby's first haircut should be kept for good luck 
• A bird that comes in your window brings bad luck 
• To refuse a kiss under mistletoe causes bad luck 
• Goldfish in the pond bring good luck 
• Goldfish in the house bring bad luck 
• For good luck, wear new clothes on Easter 
• An acorn at the window can keep lightning out of the house 
• If the bottom of your feet itch, you will make a trip 
• When a dog howls, death is near 
• It is bad luck to chase someone with a broom 
• A sailor wearing an earring cannot drown 
• To find a penny heads up, brings good luck 
• To cure a sty, rub it with a gold wedding band 
• Animals can talk at midnight on Christmas Eve 
• A drowned woman floats face up, a drowned man floats face down 
• A person cannot drown before going under three times 
• To drop a fork means a woman will visit 
• To drop a knife means a man will visit 
• To drop a spoon means a child will visit 
• To drop a dishcloth means bad luck is coming 
• If you shiver, someone is casting a shadow on your grave 
• To make a happy marriage, the bride must wear: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue 
• The wedding veil protects the bride from the evil eye 
• Washing a car will bring rain 
• You must get out of bed on the same side you got in on or you will have bad luck 
• Evil spirits cannot harm you when you are standing in a circle 
• A cat will try to take the breath from a baby 
• Warm hands, cold heart 
• Cold hands, warm heart 
• It is unlucky to rock an empty rocking chair 
• To kill an albatross is to cause bad luck to the ship and all upon it 
• Wearing an opal when it is not your birthstone is bad luck 
• Smell dandelions, wet the bed 
• To give someone a purse or wallet without money in it will bring that person bad luck 
• A forked branch, held with a fork in each hand, will dip and point when it passes over water
• Putting your clothes on backwards (accidentally)

Starting Points for Concentrations

This week, instead of taking pictures, I did a little research and wanted to share my finds/ ideas:

Ideas and Starting Points for Concentrations

1. mask/s (could include head covered with transparent materials)
2. dolls

3. animals

4. mirrors

5. reflections

6. windows

7. hand close-up
8. eye close-up

9. flowers
10. outdoors at night

11. Shadows

> textures (to layer in double exposures)

> odd juxtapositions

• Your Own Dreams
• Mirrors and Reflections
• My Life in as a Cartoon Character
• Football (or any sport or hobby) as Religion
• Consumer and Consuming
• A Day in the Life of (who?)....
• Hands (shoes, cars, feet, jewelry, any universal object) as Expressions of the Personality
• My Personal Relationship with (cars, dogs, food, you name it)
• Cliques
• In and Out
• The Life Cycle of (Anger? Love? Happiness? Despair?)
• Mathematics in Nature (The Golden Mean, Geometric shapes, Quantities)
• If Shakespeare where a Texan
• Hunger
• The Secret Life of (take one object and take pictures of it in interesting and unusual locations)
• Struggle, Overcoming Hardship, Achievement
• The Architecture of Loneliness
• Finding Peace
• Cows as Sculpture
• Car parts as Sculpture
• Soldiers and Their Families
• Old Age and Youth
• Piercing
• Body Art
• Narcissism and (Youth, working out, Beauty)
• Visual Poetry
• The Line of Beauty
• Mixed Race and Mixed Messages

Terms of Endearment - you are sweet as sugar,.....etc (student did a series composed of students covered in sugar, etc)

Different signs of luck:  Good & Bad, series of studies that included stepping on a crack, walking under a ladder, cracked mirror etc...and worked with Photoshop to enhance special effects

1. How something (like a plant or animal) changes as it grows/ages

2. Inappropriate choices teenagers make in life

3. Reflections of my face in everyday objects

4. The movement of water

5. Finding beauty in an impoverished environment (such as inner city)

6. Melding image and text to create story images

1. People's shoes can describe one's unique personality

Portions of the human body seen close up, as studies of form, texture, etc

members of my family through portraits of their feet

Do works showing risk in our lives

“Negative” – Incorporating the physical film negative into imagery with negative connotations.

Ordinary Accidents

Hands demonstrating emotion

Sculptural visual puns (time flies - clock with wings ect.)

7 deadly sins

Animal shelter 

The life of a wooden drawing mannequin

Social/political issues

Masks (interpreted – how do we hide?)

Idioms from the English language such as "punch your lights out", "walk all over me", etc. done in a Surrealism style.

Bareness (both literal and metaphorical)

Things forgotten. Abandoned buildings, old train tracks, etc…

Different generations doing same things

Nightmares.

FEBRUARY 9

 Weekend ONE pictures:
My first set of pictures are of my mom, and I am currently learning how to use photoshop filters, so I started playing around with those today too.