It was a final project I finished in my Intro to Photography class last year. It was also my first professional work piece and my first time deal with black and white pictures and dark room. Same as most people, I was more familiar with digital camera and Photoshop technologies. The Intro class did teach me a lot about how important lighting and structures are in a qualified picture. When using digital cameras, photometer usually tells you if it is to bright or too dark and even if the photo itself was not well taken, we always have Photoshop and other software to save and edit. This picture was actually a double exposure. The first negative was a normal landscape and the second negative was a portrait of a skull. I spend a lot of time to coordinate the time of exposing both negatives and this one is definitely the most successful one. The inspiration of this project came from a filming skill, in most movies, when people is recalling something, the director always have a fade-in of the actor’s face and replace it with landscape of another story to show a different story line. That is why I named this picture memory. Personally, I will consider this picture as a great trail for myself on black and white photos and double exposure and I do hope I still have chance to work on this kind of technique in the future.
These photos come from a normal person on the Internet, she is not a professional photographer or artist but a regular person who has a camera and a lovely cat. Most of her work is about ordinary daily life with her cat. Her pictures might not be perfect with structure or lighting or other professional skills but it is important that she the consciousness of recording what happen in her daily life and always prepared for what is going to happen next. You can see from her pictures that there are many unexpected surprises, it seems like she id holding the camera all the time just to be prepared for the surprises. The thing that I admire most about she and her work is the idea of simpleness. In another word, she do represent all of us, unprofessional photographers, who does not have expensive equipments and skill or time to carefully edit the pictures. Since I might not be a professional photographer in the future, taking photos of daily life and everyday routine and being passionate about them could be a perfect option for me. I belive it is not the quality bur the idea the matters most in a outstanding work piece, at least as for me it does.




No comments:
Post a Comment