A Day in the life
Step 1: Step 2: This photo was taken looking at a tree with the sun behind the leaves. The photo appears to be blurry, but what I actually did was set my lens speed slower then, as the picture was taken, zoomed out manually with the lens. This left streaks of light all over my photo. I then cropped a picture of myself and put it in the rightmost side of the photo. I overlaid the cropped portrait and turned the opacity down so I become slightly harder to see through the streaks of light. I then mounted the photo to cardboard and poured an acrylic that hardened to give a nice reflective finish to the photo.
Step 3: Two elements of design really stick out to me when I look at this photo. The first is line, and the second is value. The lines that the zooming out while the picture was being taken created are sort of curved, but they are all uniform and give a nice pattern to the photo. Since the lines were made by light coming through the tree, the value of each line changes and, consequently, so does the value of the entire picture, making it more visually appealing. Both of these lend themselves to the principle of design movement in the photo. The curved lines take your eye through the photo and give a really cool texture. The reflectiveness of the finish adds to the movement in the piece as well. Step 4: The fact that the my cropped portrait on the left is hard to see makes me think that the goal of this photo was to make the viewer take another look using the theme of "Things aren't always as they seem". I also intended for the photo to be a little crazy, kind of like life is. I'm not smiling in the photo because I wanted to emphasize that when life gets crazy it gets harder to be happy. Ultimately though, the bright greens in the photo conveys a happier message that my face might not exactly convey. Step 5: In the end, I do like this photo. I'm happy with the way the acrylic turned out and want to use it more in my work. I do wish I had been able to mount the photo on something other than cardboard, but even on cardboard I would display this in my house or in a gallery. It would be really cool to print it out really big and put glass in front of it.
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