For my set 2 work, I decided to just go with one image because I think that it has a very interesting composition with a great sense of juxtaposition. I think that the shadow of the guard creates a graphic outline that contrasts with the realistic background. The guard is also still in comparison to the woman riding the bike in motion. I also like how the use of color is portrayed in this image. The bit of red of the woman on the bike creates a sense of focus on her.
These are the eight images that I decided to highlight and possibly could use for the final set.
These are all the photos that I took in which I could come up with a concept. These images were all taken from 798, some experimenting with light, some with signs, etc.
This is an overview of the ideas that I had planned for my final set 2 photograph concept. I brainstormed ideas relating to messages and maybe experimented with typography, shadows, journeys, and road signs.
This isn’t the final work, but this is laid out to show the composition of the wheel. I think the wheel encapsulates the ongoing and never-ending feeling of high school, but also, in each individual image, highlights the uniqueness and joys of everyday life.
Here are the images that I chose to include for my final piece. I edited the brightness and saturation of the images to get the desired moody and monotonous feeling.
This is my contact sheet. I decided to follow my plan about having a similar composition for each that includes a horizontal line, and also with each photo being apart of the wheel of time.
“Passing of a Teenager’s Time” explores the overall monotonous nature with pieces of the excitement of a student’s life of going to school, going home, sleeping, and repeating. I want my audience to feel a sense of boredom and relate to the never-ending cycle of school and life in general, but to also find the joys in different parts of the day. I got inspiration by looking for photographs that encompass a circular composition, and have a sense of movement.
Above is a sketch of how I would want the piece to look like as a composition, with each highlight or part of my day as one square.
Yellow Photos
This is the initial contact sheet of every picture that I took in the mall. I experimented with purposely shaking my camera, and lengthening the exposure to get photos that are blurry and create a great amount of motion.
Green Photos
I narrowed the photos down to the ones that create the most dramatic sense of motion, keeping in mind my theme of quiet in a saturated and fast paced society.
Red Photos
The first two images will be overlapped to create a heightened sense of motion. Similarly, the last two will be overlapped as well. To reach the final look, I will also saturate both images and draw graphics on the images to create a sense of contrast (contrasting the still graphic with the intense motion of the background).
This is a sketch of my ideas in which the red drawings and the blue drawings are two different layers. The red layer represents the reality of the situation, while the blue layer represents the expectations. I plan on making four out of the ten ideas.
Yellow Photos
These yellow photos are all the images I took when when if came to my idea. I look multiple images of the same situation, and tried taking them by testing out different lightings and angles.
Green Photos
In the green photos, I narrowed it down to images that I thought the lighting was clear, and the angle was interesting yet could get the message across. In narrowing the pictures, I made sure that the expectations layer (blue drawing) overlapped with the red drawing.
Red Photos
The red photos are the final images that I will use for the concept.