CREATE & CRITIQUE Set 1

1 Plan your shoot

To make my photo perfect, I need tools to adjust the tone of the place where I take pictures and a camera that can adjust the focus. This is because, for this project, I am going to use blur or zoom in/out and tone to express the sad emotion of sexism. Also, I believe my vision is really clear so, I think would easily take photos. Also, since I cannot use the studio, I will find a place where I can change the tone of the place. The costume I want for this project is a colored costume and the color of the costume should have negative emotions such as purple, gray, black and etc.

This is one of the designs, I choose to do for this project. The person in the photo is a woman to show that sexism makes a depressed mood. Also, the pose will also help to make the photo look depressed. Also, the person should wear dark-colored clothes, which have a negative mood.

2. The Experiment: I tried many different poses, angles, places, and camera settings to make diverse types of the photo, and used either close-up or blur to show abstraction, which are my techniques for this project. Furthermore, I also used different subjects to show the variation in the photographs.

Contact Sheets: Contact Sheet

When I take these photographs, I am very inspired by the photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard, this is shown in most of my photographs because similar to Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s work, there is a dark tone, and also the emotions from the photographs are negative, including depressed, despair, sadness, etc.  Furthermore, the images are taken using the techniques: of blur and focus. Those techniques are shown in the pictures because Ralph Eugene Meatyard also used those two techniques to show the feeling of the image. For example, there are photos that have a boy and a girl, but only the boy is in focus and the girl is in a blur, showing the discrimination regarding sex, which will make the audience feel bad when they see these photos. Moreover, those photos have many variations because I used different poses, different places, different angles and etc.

Blue photos (18):

The blue photos are 18 photos that somehow represent my vision. To be more specific, those blue photos have negative emotions about sexism by using the pose of the subject, the tone of the photo, the techniques used in the photo, or the negative color of the costume, which is one of the parts of my vision. However, some of those blue photos couldn’t be green or red photos because the green and red photos used better usage of the inspiration from Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and they did a better job in showing off how bad sexism is.

Green photos (9)

There is a total of 9 green photos. Those green photos became green because those photos well-represent my vision for this set. For this set, I wanted to use blur and close-up techniques to reflect the negative emotion of sexism. This can be reflected by putting blurs or close-up of a girl because if I do like this, it will be hard to identify the identity of that girl, showing discrimination toward females. Also, there are many elements that will help to make those negative emotions, such as poses that reveal sadness or depression, and the dark tone of the photo that makes the feeling of the photo despair. Furthermore, I wanted to make the photo feel negative like Ralph Eugene Meatyard, who used blur and focus techniques to show negative, and for this green photo, I did it.

Red photos (3) I did this in the contact sheet because those three photos have differences. Red photo

My favorite photo:

When I first see this photo, my eyes first goes to the pose of the subject because the pose of the subject really fits my vision, it looks very miserable and sad, showing negative emotions about sexism. This shows that my exposure is correct because this is how I wanted the photo to be. However, I still made some distracting elements because I broke some rules in photography. This includes the rules of third, which means, one out of three-part is the subject, but for this, almost half of the photo is the subject, so it will be better if the photo had a further focal point so that it does not break the rule. Though I broke some rules, including this rule, still it looks good because of the good usage of many factors. This includes the creepy and dark background, which forms negative emotions about sexism. Also, the usage of the color in this photo is very accurate, such as the dark-tone clothes that the subject wear reveals sadness. Also, the depth of field, balance, and composition of the photo definitely fits the photo because those are accurate, the photo revealed what it suppose to be revealing. Therefore, since this photo reached my vision, when the audiences have a look at this photo, they will think negatively about sexism, making them try to eliminate sexism, which is exactly what I want the audiences to feel.