Connecting Essay Five

This photo is a photo of a world view of all lights. To me, this is the kind of photo that represents Longing. I think this because this is something I would love to see. I long to see this, I want to see it. I also think that all these lights, they evoke a happy kind of feeling. People want to feel happy, people long to bathe in happiness. Furthermore, it is the world. People ant to travel the world, people long to move, they don't want too stay still.

This is the photo I took using the above as inspiration. Seeing as I couldn't go into space or fly up to take a picture, I used an alternative, more realistic in terms of how people look. I had a map of the world on the wall, I also had fairy lights decorating the map. I decided to use Bokeh to gain the circled lights. The reason I did this was because people like light, people long to be in the light, for the lime light. I also used the map because of how people like to move around, to travel the world.

Both photos represent Longing in different yet the same way. The first one is more in a fantasy of longing, whereas my photo is more realistic. Both have a blue tinge to them. I like the way they can also mean different things to different people too.

Connecting Essay Four

This photo is a photo that I felt represented Longing. I think that because the way the woman is looking out of the glass, with her hand pressed up against it evokes a feeling of her wanting to escape. The rain to me represents a thunderstorm. It is like she is trapped in a storm and she is struggling to make her way out. The image is very clear and so has a personal meaning to the model.  

This is the photograph I took. I wanted to do something similar, so I asked my model to stand in a shower. We ran the shower head over the doors to create the drips of water. I found it difficult to try and get her face in focus because of the mist, so I tried a different Idea. I thought if I focused on the water and mist, she would become a silhouette. This way, the photo becomes less personal and more wide spread To me this photograph has the same meaning as the one I drew inspiration from. The model is stuck in a thunderstorm, but she is even further in it. 

Both photographs represent Longing in very similar ways. They are also both black and white with the same concept, however my photo is aimed more to a wider audience, Whereas the first photo is personal. I think they both succeed in bringing a message across

Connecting Essay Three

This photo is a photo that represents sadness. I think it represents it in a different way other than crying. The woman is purely looking down. I like the way that she also looks angry which expresses different ways people handle their dismay. The photo has almost hand prints/dust on it which gives it a very old effect, making the photo seem more antique and raw. She also looks wealthy and is presented very clean and tidy.

This is a photo I took myself. I drew inspiration from the photo above and tried to imitate it but not exactly. I modernized the photo by having the model dress in a fur wrap and wear slightly jazzy pants. I also asked her to just express how she would be feeling sad if she was looking down. I didn't ask her to be angry or lonely, only asked her to look down. As you can see she looks like she is reminiscing, which would be her way of expressing sadness.  

Both photos are edited in black and white, this emphasizes the mood of both women. I like the way they are both looking away, it's like you wouldn't want to disturb them. In the photograph I took, it is a lot clearer, whilst the other photo looks antique. I think they both represent sadness very well in their own respects.

Connecting Essay Two

This image clearly shows sadness. You can see the way the little boy looks at the camera. The emotions in his eyes are very raw and strong. I think the fact that he a black boy makes people who watch TV automatically feel sad; we have a connection between black kids and the poverty in Africa. This connection is from the TV adverts we see asking to donate £2.00 . I think he way this photo is captured expresses raw emotions and cleverly allows us to connect.

This is a photo that I took.I drew inspiration from his photograph. I liked the angle it was shot from and how clearly you can see the emotions. I did not want to copy it however. I shot my photograph from a birds eye view. I think that the fact yo can see her crying automatically touches someones heart strings. I edited the eye into colour so that you are draw in more. IT enables you to study the eyes and try and read any emotions.

I think that both photographs represent sadness very well. I like the angles they are both taken from and I adore the emotions you can read on both faces. Both images have black and white concepts. However the first image is a lot darker, but that may be down to skin tone.

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Discussion

First Shoot

When we first started this exam, I had it in my head that I would do happiness and sadness. I wanted to do these two topics because they are able to show raw emotions, they contrast each other. However, when I shot these in my practice shoots, I found that it wasn't all that interesting. Instead, from the ten shoots that I did, I really enjoyed Hope. I liked the way I could bring culture into the picture, experiment between humans and objects. The exam paper, under mood and atmosphere, tells us to look at lighting, setting and props. I think that in hope I can use those three very well. I think lighting throughout should be either dark with one ray of light, or very light and colorfully emphasis's the faith.

These are three photographs that I really like and would like to use for inspiration.

The First photo is a light shining through a key hole. I like the idea of this. The reason  I like it is because of the message it gives out. The door and handle look old, dark, rusty. Yet there is still light shining through. I think it gives the message out of that no matter what you look like, who you are, where you are, the situation you are in; there will be light at the end. There's always room for a little bit of light. I like the way you can see the shadowing of the door handle and the way the sole focus is the door.

The second Image isn't so much a photograph, more something that would have just been done on word and screenshot. However, I like the culture of the word. It means hope and I have an idea of photographing someone writing it down in a journal of some sort. I think I would like the

 photograph to be yellow in colour with a vignette around it. 

Lastly the third photo is a dandelion. I would like to photograph some sort of flower to represent hope. In the same way as the key hole - alone but there is still a chance of survival. I am not keen on the way this dandelion is photographed, I would like to use mine a little more zoomed out and have a dark background. 

I think these three Images show mood and atmosphere very well; through the lighting and objects. I am excited to experiment using these as inspirations.

- Small ornament temple
- Buddha statue
Cross Necklace
- Chinese Writing
- Light through Key Hole
- Dandelion/ Flower

Second Shoot

For my second shoot I would like to contrast Hope, and go with a theme of giving up. All the photos would be in black and white, With dark surroundings and negative space.

these three photos are ones that I would like to use as inspiration.

The first one I would like to edit the eye in the same way, but without the hands in the middle. I like the way it is kind of saying how each little personal characteristic is fading away. The demons inside are winning and the person is becoming possessed. There's no hope left.

The second photo is of a woman holding her hands to her face with a cigarette. I like this photograph because of the way she hasn't completely given up yet but is on her way to giving up. It it very realistic and demonstrates what a high percentage of people now days feel.

Finally, the third photograph is my favourite. I like the way the black can represent the bad things, voices, self harm, demons, depression, its slowly crawling up the persons arms. It is like  visual representation of depression taking over, and the person losing hope. It's like their blood going cold.

- Eye
- Cigarette
- Black Hand
-  Shadow
- Pills
- Lifting of feet.

Physical Experiments

The meaning of this photo was always that two friends are arguing, however, I decided to rip it down and splattered fake blood down the middle and onto their hands. This represents the heart of their friendship,t they foundation splitting and all the love, all the emotions they once had are spilling everywhere, getting lost.

This photo was a representation of Hope. The glitter swirls and lines are visual representations of  dreams and desires. They are fantasies.

The glitter on the bokkeh lights is the representation of the lime light, the golden lights where everyone wants to be.

I decided to scratch the people in the background out. The reason I did this was to express the isolation of the one single girl. To me it is a way of showing that the others are becoming messy, they're becoming bad things to that girl.