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Comments on last two projects

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I veered a little bit away from my initial plan for Project 3, as I was getting a little bored messing with just the colored lights. Instead, I decided to see how just one small pop of color could change the mood or association of a photo. I had my model wear white and used high-key lighting, and switched out various colored hair accessories throughout the shoot. The background was a little hard to work with, as it was just the white board behind all the rollpaper, but some cropping and editing make it okay.

I did stick with my original subject matter for the Final Project, but I did not end up using film. I did actually shoot about half a roll of film for it, but I was waiting to get some specific shots and was not sure if I would have the time to finish shooting AND get in the darkroom to develop the film and make prints. So, I switched over to digital and tried to create a similar effect to the 3200 speed film by messing with the photos a little bit during editing, through the blur and sharpen tools and the unsharp mask to create that bit of gritty noise I wanted from the film.

Color + Final Project Proposals

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Since I accidentally already incorporated color into my Deliberate Lighting project, I am simply going to build on my previous work for the Deliberate Color project. I’m going to use the same technique of draping fabric over the studio lights, but rather than doing so randomly to see what kind of effect can be achieved, I will choose certain colors to represent emotions and ask my model to portray those emotions. I know that color associations can be subjective, but I will try my best to pick colors that I feel enhance the mood of each photo. Right now, I’m thinking a muted blue or green for depressed, orange for anxious, red for angry, purple for happy, and others along those lines.

I don’t have a fully planned idea for my final project, but I know what theme I want to portray. I’m graduating Stony Brook in May after living here for 4 years. Even before SBU, I’ve lived in the NYC area almost my whole life. Over the summer, I’ll be moving 1200 miles away to New Orleans for graduate school, and I want my project to focus on the process of leaving, and on the end of things. I’m likely going to shoot analog with 3200 speed film, which will give my photos that extra bit of noise that could enhance the idea of things fading away or dissolving. I need to come up with a list of exactly what I want to shoot, but I’m thinking along the lines of a train that is leaving, empty bottles after a party, a stack of labeled moving boxes, and things like that. I’ll have to be careful not to make the photos too sad or lonely, as I don’t want the theme to be loneliness, but rather endings and then, hopefully, new beginnings. I think that shooting them all with the same kind of film will help the series be cohesive.

I like the slight blur effect. By Jaren from saidlikekaren.com

This is an example of something shot with 3200 speed film (by Tim Layton). I like the noise effect and the ease of shooting in darker environments.