Exploring Color
This assignment shouldn't have been as hard as it was. I literally live in a room that looks like the scene of Rainbow Brite's murder (although not as much as it did once because I'm an adult now after all). It's not like I didn't have plenty of things to choose from. Aside from my eternal struggle with indoor lighting, nothing I was shooting had any sort of emotional quality to it. I was just taking photos of things that are colored.
I thought maybe I should pick the emotion first, but I didn't know what that should be. Then I stepped on a dead leaf in the garage.
Abandoned Childhood.
Ok, "Abandoned Childhood" isn't an emotion, but isn't this picture somber and dramatic and depressing? Like the child who owned this bear has grown up and left it behind, along with her hopes and dreams and happiness.
This is the original image.
I really wanted it to feel dark and depressing. And maybe a little old and dusty. I took pretty much all the saturation out, except a little bit of the oranges and reds so it kind of has a sepia quality. I also added a vignette to darken it up more and also bring in the focus.
I played around with the color of some of the other photos just for funsies because I didn't think there was anything that gave me a particular emotion or feeling. But maybe I still need to play with them more. I do think these edits are far more interesting than the originals and maybe someone else will get an emotion from them that I can't.
This one I didn't actually change the color that much but I did learn how to straighten images and use distortion! That was helpful because my dollhouse lives on the floor and I was lying at a weird angle to get the sun. Also I think that's a reflection of my elbow in the window. (I still need to put the door knob on the door, but shh!)
(It occurs to me that I should have dusted the balrog off first, but oh well.)
(The quality of this image isn't the greatest, but it was the best of the ones I took of this and I might just have a photo series one day of books in chairs because...books in chairs)
I thought maybe I should pick the emotion first, but I didn't know what that should be. Then I stepped on a dead leaf in the garage.
Abandoned Childhood.
Ok, "Abandoned Childhood" isn't an emotion, but isn't this picture somber and dramatic and depressing? Like the child who owned this bear has grown up and left it behind, along with her hopes and dreams and happiness.
This is the original image.
I really wanted it to feel dark and depressing. And maybe a little old and dusty. I took pretty much all the saturation out, except a little bit of the oranges and reds so it kind of has a sepia quality. I also added a vignette to darken it up more and also bring in the focus.
I played around with the color of some of the other photos just for funsies because I didn't think there was anything that gave me a particular emotion or feeling. But maybe I still need to play with them more. I do think these edits are far more interesting than the originals and maybe someone else will get an emotion from them that I can't.
This one I didn't actually change the color that much but I did learn how to straighten images and use distortion! That was helpful because my dollhouse lives on the floor and I was lying at a weird angle to get the sun. Also I think that's a reflection of my elbow in the window. (I still need to put the door knob on the door, but shh!)
(It occurs to me that I should have dusted the balrog off first, but oh well.)
(The quality of this image isn't the greatest, but it was the best of the ones I took of this and I might just have a photo series one day of books in chairs because...books in chairs)
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