Vision Through Water

In this final set of my work, I felt that I was able to photograph images that I initially wanted to. Even though I had gone through many unsuccessful tries, I kept trying new ideas and new ways to improve. Challenges were sometimes uncontrollable such as the condition and surroundings. For my practice set, I used the fish tank in school, but the condition was limited, so it did not turn out really good. Than in the experience at 798, I was able to capture some pictures that might be used in my final set. However, I tried to edit it and it still didn’t met my expectations because the background and theme are not concentrated. During the break, I went to an aquarium, but there were to many people so, again, I wasn’t able to create good photographs. During every set of experiment with photographing,  the lighting was the biggest challenge. I have to keep on changing the ISO because the photograph was either exposure or too dark. And some places I cannot control the lighting, so I have to use flashlights or other light sources to get the right light intensity. Than I thought of the idea to spread water on a mirror and let my main character lay on the mirror. This time, the photographs were getting to the point where I wanted them to be. As a photographer, I succeeded on keep trying new ideas and did not give up even if the results were not good. Especially the right one in my red tags, it has a different lighting with the other two pictures, which makes a really interesting contrast. I used depth of field to make the focus on Jungyoon in the mirror. The water on the mirror distorted Jungyoon’s reflection in the mirror, and looked a little different than her facial expression on the actual face. I took this photo by putting a big mirror on the floor and splashed some water on to it. Then I let Jungyoon to put her face on top of the mirror. The photograph was taken in a dark environment, but I used the flashlight on my phone to create lighting. The lighting is bright and the flashlight was placed on top of my camera. By looking at Claire Luxton’s work, I successfully combined the elements of people’s face and water. I considered her photographs of putting a person’s face one half in the water and the other on top. However, with limited conditions, I wasn’t able to do that so I used mirror to imitate it. Her photographs captures close up images of face which I also did for mine. This emphasize the feeling I wanted to express through exaggerating details of my photograph. Through this photo, I wanted to show the idea of a close relation between human and nature (water). She smiles when looking into the mirror, this reflects a feeling of  human looking at how water helped them in many ways and reveals a sense of gratified, showing a friendly connection between human and nature.

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