Statement 1: In my first image, I was using the Urban Picturesque prompt. The original image was taken in downtown Lansing, and I was immediately drawn to the stairs on the outside of the building. After reading the prompt, I decided that I needed to do something to the image to make it seem "beautiful", so I got the building in the frame so that there was sky on top to play with. Once I started editing, I just tried different things. I desaturated the colors a bit to make it look more like an old painting. I copied the building and tried using the duplicates in different areas of the image, and what I came up with as a final image I felt seemed geometric and urban, but also picturesque and soft.
In my second image, I was going off of the multiple selves prompt. I love fall, all the colors of the trees are so wonderful, and thinking about the colors of the leaves changing made me think of myself changing. People change through life as leaves do through the seasons, but I noticed these 2 trees together, and that one was still completely green as the other changed. It made me think about how some things in my life are still the same, but others are constantly being altered. I took some images that were vertical, but decided I liked the wideness of this horizontal image just because it was aesthetically pleasing, and because of the way the sun was shining through the branches.
In my third image, I was trying to recreate an image I had already taken. We had an assignment with a large format camera, and I took a picture of this building that turned out really well. So I wanted to see if I went back to the building, I could get the image to turn out similar to the one from the large format camera. Originally when I took the image I was just trying to find something that had a lot of detail since the large format images can be so clear, so I went out at took pictures of a lot of buildings. I really liked the windows on this one, because of the symmetry, but I also liked the lamp posts and colors of the street to make the image less symmetrical.
In my fourth image, I was trying to make a statement about the things that happen in the Capitol building. I had taken an image of a man wearing a suit walking down the street, and then took a photograph of the capital, and duplicated the man without his head or hands in front of the building. I feel like most people that go into the Capitol are "just suits". They go in and are concerned with one side of an argument, they fight for it, someone wins, and they leave. Whether someone actually has strong feelings about an issue seems irrelevant, it's more about whichever side the person is on winning. I took both pictures from the same angle and in the same general area in hopes to get the same lighting.
Statement 2: In my first image, people seemed to like the way that I put the images together. Someone said they liked the shape the negative space made. There weren't many comments, but I would say that this image worked the best to express the prompt I was using. I feel that the composition and colors work well for what I was trying to convey. I don't think I would change anything. I could try using different buildings or even just different objects to make different abstract images like this one for a series.
In my second image, I don't think anyone understood why I chose the prompt that I did for this image. However, I think more people may have commented about the theme if we had had a little more time during the critique. Someone said that they thought the colors were very nice because it obviously reminded them of fall. I think the colors work nicely, and the theme is going in the right direction. I may have been able to carry it out a little better though, and make the concept a bit more obvious. For pictures like this in the future, I would probably try to find pairs of things that were different, to elaborate on my concept of changing/staying the same or having one self that is different from your other selves.
In my third image, without being able to see the original image, I don't think anyone would understand what I was trying to do. If we could do the critique again, I would bring in the original image. I think the lighting is working well in this image, but I could work on the composition and try to brighten the colors a bit. It all seems pretty dull. For a series, I would either try to recreate other images I had taken with a large format camera, or find other interesting buildings to photograph in cities.
In the fourth image, people seemed to like the image, but no one commented on what they thought it was about. They thought that the concept of putting men walking up to the building was interesting, but that the image needed to be bigger so it was more obvious. The comment was also made that the building should be lightened up so that the black suits were more visible. I think if I was going to make a series out of this, I would choose people who had different professions and use them in the same way (take their picture and duplicate their clothing, then put it in front of their place of employment) to make a statement about people's jobs and how the jobs influence their lives.
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