I mentioned in my mind map that I wanted to use the techniques and methods that Wynn Bullock uses, and apply it to my interests, and my style of photography. In this assignment, I chose everyday life. This was actually a photo that I took a while ago on my trip to Taipei during the spring break. It was a photo of an organic object. In his photographs, Wynn Bullock likes to take photos of different scenes around the world, often focusing on natural scenes. and often uses greyscale adjusting the tone, lighting, and strengthening the contrast of color to convey a sense of abstraction and deliver his own message. I did choose an organic object, and adjusted the tone and lighting from what I found in everyday life, but there are some key differences to the style that Wynn Bullock photographs, and the method that I did in this photo. Unlike a certain scene in our world, my main subject is an organic object. It is a luxury item, made and crafted only for pure enjoyment and entertainment to the few amount of people that come across it. Unlike a piece of paper, an onion, or a toilet this is a rare organic object that few people can see, and my visual interpretation of this object further emphasizes this message. This object seems to be the embodiment of luxury. The jagged points on this object seems to symbolize the sharp disparity between the people who are able to see this object, and the people who can’t, the sharp disparity of the people who get to enjoy the beauty and benefits of luxury and those who cannot. The shadow that is juxtaposed with the organic object seems to symbolize, that while many people think that they live luxurious lives, it is only a shadow, a mere illusion to the true beauty and glamour of luxury that only a few people can experience. There is another aspect of my photo that uses a different method compared to Wynn Bullock photography. As mentioned before, Wynn Bullock creates a strong contrast in the photo to convey a sense of abstraction. However, I wanted to use the tone and lighting to deliver my message and my interpretation of this object to the people that are viewing this photo. I altered the lighting to be cold, and rigid, again emphasizing the cold reality that luxury something that anybody can enjoy. (Note: I am not saying this in a negative way. I just wanted to deliver this message to the people that are viewing this photograph.) In this photo, I used the techniques and methods that my artist used and altered these techniques slightly to fit my perception, and my interests in photography, and this will be my vision for the rest of the unit.

The message that I want to deliver in this photo is that you should focus on yourself rather than thinking about others. My main subject in this photo is the man walking across the hallway. You can barely notice him right? The photo seems wrong! People are everywhere, and is “something” that anyone can see in everyday life. The person is walking past the corridor. I adjusted the exposure, turned on greyscale, decreased the warmth, using the techniques and methods that Wynn Bullock uses to make the feet and legs of the man barely noticable. I wanted the main subject to “blend in” to the photo. I wanted to deliver the message that the friends that you share your life with, the people that you meet, is like the morning mist. It comes and goes. As time goes on, people leave you and forget about who you were, and what you meant to them. As time goes on, you will have met so many people in your life that all of them will just become a blur, something that blends into your life. If they become like that, why spend so much time thinking about what others think of you and how they view you? The second subject that I incorporated into this photo is the painting on the wall with ducks, people, and a green pasture. They too have become blurry. I blurred them out as well to show that life is a blur. At one moment you’re young and healthy, and bam!, you get a cold. Life passes by quick like a sudden blur, so we should cherish every single moment that life offers to us.

This is a photo that I took using Wynn Bullock’s techniques, and showing my past love for football, and my current love for the sport of track and field. Analyzing Wynn Bullock’s photos, many of them are pictures from nature, and it is evident from these photos that that is what he values the most. To emanate the setting and the technique that he used, I tried to find a place with a natural feel, with different types of trees, plants, and etc. While I copied his techniques, there are some slight differences that I made in contrast to his techniques. Although I tried to imitate Wynn Bullock’s feel of setting in my photos, I chose the setting based on my interest and the message that I am trying to communicate with the audience. In the setting of the photo, you can see that the track is juxtaposed to a soccer field. Soccer was a sport that I enjoyed in the past, but is something that gave up on because my friends started getting better at it than me as time went on. Track and field was a sport that I picked up this year, and was something that I am prefer over soccer know which is why the majority of the photo (the bottom half) is a picture of the track. Like Wynn Bullock, I created a strong contrast in the photo with the use of greyscale, creating an especially strong contrast with the track and the soccer field to show that track is something that I like and want to pursue in contrast to soccer.