Theme: Stress and Contrast

(Emotion + Lighting)

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Main Critique: Although the emotions and light are all up to place, the contrast could be expressed better as for right now it looks completely blend. To improve, I should add more comparison of the shadow to the background therefore creating another layer contrast so that the original lighting contrast would stand out.

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Success and Critique: I succeeded in creating the contrast of lighting on the subject’s face. At the same time because I darkened the entire image through editing, making the subject’s face look like it is floating which I find rather creative. However because I edited a bit too much, the contrast was reduced overall as the bright part of the subject now looks like there is a layer of darkness covering it. Next time to fix this problem I will try to achieve similar effect during the shoot instead of editing.

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Success and Critique: I was able to generate bother emotional stress and contrasted lighting. In addition, parts of the contrast also differed from the background therefore the entire image isn’t “all smushed together” into one giant block. However, for whatever reason the lighting on the subject’s lips looks rather unfitting compared to the rest of the face. The lips part looks like the shadowing was reversed (was not) and even quite disturbing. Next time, I will ensure I experiment with slightly different angles in attempts to avoid this problem.

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Success and Critique: This was an outstanding piece and it not only expressed stress perfectly through the subject’s facial expression but the lighting contrast coming in from the side also smoothened the presentation of my central idea. In addition, the accidental blur generated a gloomy feeling for the viewers as if they are thinking deeply about themselves inside a dream. Next time however I would do another retake after seeing the blur just to experiment with different effects and see the diversity of outcomes it can provid.

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