For my final I did an image series based on the idea of being hidden within plain site. The idea came to me when viewing Simen Johan’s photos on bird and seeing one blending into it’s surroundings with camouflage. Building off this idea I saw Art Wolfe who further showed off animals blending into their surrounding and more notably Lui Boline who painted himself to blend into his surroundings. Initially I thought this would be a lot more achievable and would be able to get a photo within a photo in an arranged space to make the illusion possible. Then I realized how much I overestimated how difficult this would be and toned down what I could potentially do as trying to find both blending textures and colors within two different subjects proved to be a challenge. So instead I opted out from camouflaged within a subject’s surrounding to making a subject appear hidden within plain site. I went towards this path as my main theme because I feel like everybody has been in the scenario where they’re attempting to find something and it’s been right under their nose the whole time. So all I really did was use a light source that was already present (sunlight and fllorescent lighting) and arranged the pieces to be as interesting as they could be and do slight touch ups in photoshop afterwards but nothing too extreme as I wanted the image to be seen as if done through a natural eye. The flower was the easiest to achieve as it was simply a matter of doing a top down view on it. I went with a couple of different shot for the apples but I feel like the one I’m presenting here does a better job of standing out without taking center stage like in my other shots where it was more obviously among them.Lastly, the photo with the silverware was done with other object but I found the nail clippers to have the most similar silver to match actual tableware. I wanted to do more images for this final but a lot of my other ideas were poorly done like a wooden turner spatula on a hardwood floor, a green sponge besides a cactus and I felt they weren’t well developed enough to be used. So I opted out these 3 as my strongest pieces as their presence had the most impact out of the photos I shot.
