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Final Evaluation (Final Project)

From the sheet of photos I have taken, I decided to pick 3 of the photos from all, I mainly focused on the use of color in order to create different atmosphere. The first photo displayed a playground with equipments like slide and other facilities on the kit. The inspiration of the photo came from my memory of I walking in my community during the late afternoon around a playground. This picture displays the scene after the kids leave the playground for dinner. The second photo displays a dark blue slide that was alone at the playground. It reminds me of my memory of past, where kids played with equipments, where I was playing with a small slide while the others were playing with the big slide. It reminds me of my own childhood where I was alone and felted none of my friends can understand my deeper emotions and how I acted strange during child. The final photo displayed a classroom with filled with different tools and books, that displays a very warm atmosphere. It would remind people’s memory during their kindargarten years, where creates the emotion of miss. Overall, these photos contained a variety of use of color that creates different atmospheres that are unprecedented.

Reflection: Due to the time passed as I grow into an older age, I realized it becomes more difficult to capture childhood memories as more memories and physical scenes started to disappear. This has emphasized the importance of planning and a more clear vision. However, these photos helped me to develop another vision throughout my life, and it does improve me with my mindset and use of color for photography.

Inspiration (Final Project)

When I was doing some research about dream core, I was extremely inspired by Paul Sawyers, that takes unusual photos that people won’t easily discover. I am aiming to use his style as a basic to be my photography style in order to develop more in advance. Where Paul Sawyers aimed to use a variety of colors and uncommon framing to fill the camera, that I am deciding to aim for his style with my personal experience. That provides the “perfect chemistry” in my perspective. That the variety of the color creates the atmosphere of a mixture feeling, which different usage of color provides different emotion for audience.

Citation:

Brighton photographer and artist

https://paulsawyers.co.uk/

About | Paul Sawyers. https://paulsawyers.co.uk/about/. Accessed 1 June 2025.

Experiments of Photos (Final Project)

Mood Board (Final Project)

Mood Board

Vision Statement (Final Project)

In my final project series, I decided to make a combination of street photography and abstract. That I was trying to explore a style named Dreamcore. Dreamcore is a type of style that uses a combination of elements that creates a feeling of familiar with the strange feeling  by focusing on the coloring of photos and the framing of photos. In this case, I take photos of familiar scenes that I experienced during my childhood. That I would focus on the use of colors for photos and framing of photos. It is because comparing to other style, Dreamcore has an unusual framing and coloring comparing to other styles. That creates the mood of familiar with the strange that is unique compared to other styles.

Citation:

What is dreamcore? Tips for dreamcore design | Adobe Express

What is dreamcore? Find out about this design style and create surreal, dreamlike designs using Adobe Express templates, filters, and effects. Get started now.

https://www.adobe.com/uk/express/learn/blog/what-is-dreamcore\

Artist final reflection (Identity)

Final reflection: The overall choice is a fair choice for me, while most of my photos are mostly matched with the chosen artist’s style. In one of the photos, where I am deciding to take a photo of a side of my subject’s face, where the photo turned out that my subject seemed to be twisted at last. I thought that can be some of my creativity and eventually put it into my final choices of pictures.

Identity mood board

identity mood board

Statement of Intent (Identity)

The title of this project is students that is stressed about study. My model will be a student that suffer stress a lot, etc. The photos will especially highlight the stress they have. While in modern society, students tend to get more pressure as their age grow, but some of their parents doesn’t realize that and thought the student don’t have that much pressure. However, that is not true, in my perspective, they’re way more stressed than the parents thought. Thus, some of the photos will be taken in ways that can completely reveal their identity. This may reveal their identity of their role in society, which also creates the effect of stress. I want my audience to feel the gratefulness of their hard working and performance. I will start to get inspiration from my friend, while filtering a choice of people, but also gaining inspiration.

Contact Sheet (Identity)

Contact Sheet (Identity) 2Yellow Photos (Identity) 2Green Photos (Identity) 2

Contact Sheet (Street Photography

Yellow Photos (Street Photography) 2Green Photos (Street Photography) 2Red Photos (Street Photography) 2

 

 

In these photos that I have labeled as yellow photos are mostly photos that I filtered out are photos that follow the artist that I set my vision with. Besides, it does comply with the theme that I am willing to express. Where these photos followed the photographer, I had chosen for the reference vision.

 

Photos that I have labeled as green photos are photos that I have saved that are photos with higher quality and more relevant to my topic of colorfulness. Where it filtered out photos that might not be that much relevant and photos that is relevant to the topic but contained a lower quality, so photos in green photos contains a higher quality meanwhile an improved connection with the topic.

 

Finally, for the red photos, it is mainly photos that I have chosen to follow both the inspired photographer and my own style. Where I was inspired by Dreamcore (A type of visual trend blending the familiar with the strange), meanwhile Dreamcore usually uses a variety of color/or rarely any colors. So this follows the inspiration of my photographer, while reaching my own style.

 

Citation:

What is dreamcore? Tips for dreamcore design | Adobe Express

What is dreamcore? Find out about this design style and create surreal, dreamlike designs using Adobe Express templates, filters, and effects. Get started now.

https://www.adobe.com/uk/express/learn/blog/what-is-dreamcore

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