Title: Darkness – the medium in which I am trying to promote, over color and saturation
The reason I chose the red photos of the third set over the first and second set’s, is because I feel very strongly about my third set and I my first and second sets are two unfocused, their visions are too broad and they their photos don’t have any connection too each other. For an individual showdown, my first set’s window photo would have won, but together they distract us from each other. However, the dark photos are so similar to each other, and the entire set is just in one medium. For set 1 and 2 there is color and shape difference, for set three there is only darkness. The reason I chose the red photos from the third set is just because they are the best out of them all. But you might have notice I kicked out one of the red photos, the one with the playground, and that’s because it’s too clear and doesn’t fit with the others as much the others.
Final Evaluation:
For my final photos, there are many inspirations and revelations. Many of which I just had ideas pop into my brain, and more of which I randomly experimented with my camera and settled with a good result of. But of all, the most concise ones are the ones I could actually see examples of – artists. I would say that Uta Barth is my greatest inspiration, now my photos are from set 3, whose patron artist is O Winston Link, but I chose Uta Barth as my greatest inspiration, why is that? It’s because O Winston Links photo although holds some value, they are not value that I could capitalize on, I already knew to take photos at night, and already knew how to drop the exposure. All I got from him were the idea of landscape and machinations. But from Uta Barth, I got my entire knowledge on how to take abstract photos, even for my third set, I still clang to the way of Uta Barth. My tendency to take dark-ambiguous photos are all from Uta Barth, although her own photos are rather bad. As for experimentations, I sometimes just play around with the settings on my phone and point at various locations, but more so, I like to randomly add effects on affinity photo that I don’t even know about, sometimes it turns out well, like some of my set 3 blue photos, but sometimes it’s just mediocre. I also liked to stick my photo into tubes and bins, covering the filth with darkness. I personally, would say that the third set was a combination of the first set and second. In the first set, I developed the unclear = abstract sentiment, and in the second set, I discovered the black and white strategy. My third set is just exactly the combination of that. My first two sets are flawed: 1. ambiguousness means no detail, means no concentrated texture and pattern. 2. too much detail is too un-abstract. My third set is a combination in the result of me trying to take from the mistakes, it certainly does better than either other sets though. To conclude, I believe I did very well in my project, the final triptych shows all that I learned during this unit, and the completeness of my journey. Including how to make things abstract whilst keeping their unique elements. I think my ideas in the project are diverse and interesting, and that I backed up my visions to the fullest using effects, techniques, and edits. However, some of my photos are just taken to fill the spot of 60 photos, sometimes I take photos that I thought were different enough from each other – which when I look back, is actually very similar. Consecutively, many of my photos are not taken at the opportune moment or place, there were many places I wished I took photos at. And when in school, I wished it was night.