Dust

This idea was extremely difficult to get right. I had to juggle my lamp in one hand and the talcum powder in the other. It took me over an hour before I called it a day, and stop trying to shoot it exactly as I pictured. I think I had the sandman in mind for this shot. It is supposed to be as if i'm the keeper of dreams, the ruler of my subconcious world in this shot. The talc pwder didn't work too well mixed with the glitter, I think the glitter was weighed down by the powder, so it refused to move an inch, or I wasn't blowing hard enough, but I didn't want it to look like a dust cloud but more like a stream of dust.

Altered the image levels alittle on one of my computer programs that came withthe camera. Highlighted the hand and the surrounding area, by changing the contrast. The dust blowing away is the most important.

Tears

I'm not too sure what the idea behind this particular shot was. I think this was the last set of shots I took on the Sunday gone and I needed to hurry because my battery was almost gone. I had the idea of doing something with war paint and tears, but I didn't have a wide collection of face paints left so I just did white tears- probably because I found my collection of Hans Christan Andersen short stories over the summer, and The Snow Queen popped into my head. I only took two pictures before my camera decided it had enough and died on me.

Submersion

Only took 3 photos to do with this idea. I think the lighting could have been better, but I made do with my desk lamp. I was frantically shaking the jar from side to side to try and make the water seem like it was rising and like I was kind of being consumed by the water. Like when you are in a dream and everything is distorted and you feel helpless and disorientated, because something around you is happening but it is out of your control.

This one seems to be abit too dark, I quite prefer the firdt shot, above, but there is something about this one that I like. This one seems more timid and meek and the way the hand is crawling out from around the jar is quite interesting.

My altered version. I think the green colour makes the image more ominous. It works well with the shadows, as things seem unsettled, but the water is still, the eye is looking out through the glass, the hand is grasping out.  You almost ask: Where is this and what is going on?

Double-Vision

Diplopia

Two faces. Two different views. Two different versions of me.

I like this shot most of all the ones I took. I had a spare set of glasses ad decided to take the picture in this way to reflect the different ways I see things; when I see with the aid of glasses and with out. It also ties in with my theme of how the mind has a distorted view of things, and how it is different from actual reality. Kind of like how different Jekyll and Hyde are.

Frustration

One of my first attempts- I hope my frustation shows.

Took a break and had another few attempts

Started taking pictures for my self-portraits assignment around 11 on a Sunday Morning. I decided to take them in the the bathroom, because if I made a mess when creating some of the images, it would be easier to clean up (plus the living room was occupied). My hope was that I would be able to use 7-10 good shots for my self-portrait homework, but I only managed 5. I wasn't aware how difficult it would be to take pictures of myself. My first idea took me over an hour to take before I gave up trying to capture the photo exactly like I had envisioned. I tried to change the position because the light behind me wasn't stable andept ling down, but judging where to move so the shadows created on the the tracing paper was not an easy task.

I really did not likethis image at first, but it is rather interesting, now that I look at it again.

Decided to use this image. -The more I look at it, the more I like it.-

I decided to chose this photo overall because I thnk the shadows were slightly softer and closer to the image I had in mind. If I was to do this again I would try to find a larger sheet of traving paper or position more lights around or attch some kind of protection or shade around the naked bulb to create a softer effect.


I think I want the majority of the images I take for this project to be studio based. I want the theme for my images to surround the mind and help show case how the thoughts, feeling and any other happenings we conjure up within ourselves are just abstractions of our reality. Creating these ideas in a studio setting would be good because the studio is like an artificial reality.