Composition: For this project i wanted the composition of the pieces to feel a little bit more candid. I mean the people would be somewhat posed but i did not want to change there back drop. This made it so that it became more personal.
Concept: My images are about peoples emotions and how they might be masked by a smile. We can often tell what people are feeling by there complete facial expression. At the same time someone can be smiling on the outside but their eyes may tell a different story. So having everyone cover up there mouth with the smiley mug it forces people to look to their eyes to find the emotion they might be feeling.
Method: In a previous project i took a picture of my sister holding this same mug. So this was the starting off point for this project. One thing that changed was the backgrounds. My sister was in front of a set background where in these images they are in their natural setting.
Motivations: I want people to be able to figure out what a person might be feeling based off the expression we might get from their eyes. I also want people to feel happy when they look at these images.
Context: I don't know that my images have a context. I mean i have people of many different cultures in my images. My images relate to how people behave in society. They may seem happy on the inside but they might be screaming on the inside.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Blog #25
Write a detailed description of your “motivations” for your final self-proposed project. Why are you interested in this subject? What do you want to convey? How do you want viewers to respond? Why are you inspired to make these images/this project? Do you want to evoke emotions in viewers? Shock viewers? Make them laugh? Make them think? Inform them? Reveal something about how you see the world? Reveal something about yourself, a person, a place, a feeling, a memory, a moment in time?
My motivations is to try and capture peoples emotions through there eyes. I am interested in it because i find it interesting that even though you cover up a persons mouth you still can possibly tell what they are feeling just by looking at there eyes. I want it to be some what comical as well as serious because peoples emotions is what i want to mainly look at. I was inspired to do these from a previous project in the class. I want the viewers to be able to feel some of the emotion that the people in the images are feeling. I also want them to laugh because i find it funny since they are holding a smiley face. I want people to understand that sometimes peoples facial expression might not always convey what they are feeling.
My motivations is to try and capture peoples emotions through there eyes. I am interested in it because i find it interesting that even though you cover up a persons mouth you still can possibly tell what they are feeling just by looking at there eyes. I want it to be some what comical as well as serious because peoples emotions is what i want to mainly look at. I was inspired to do these from a previous project in the class. I want the viewers to be able to feel some of the emotion that the people in the images are feeling. I also want them to laugh because i find it funny since they are holding a smiley face. I want people to understand that sometimes peoples facial expression might not always convey what they are feeling.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Project #5 Part 2
Image 1: (Constructed Identity 1)
Interpretation: People that represent people are composed in the mask. Hiding behind friends and family. eyes are the windows into soul everything else is representational.
Evaluation: maybe have different parts included in the composition. Thought that it was interesting but maybe could have been done differently but they due not know how.
Extension: Maybe creating masks for multiple people.
Image 2: (Constructed Identity 2)
Interpretation: Looks like multiple expressions of a person. Shows the many facial expressions people can make.
Evaluation: They thought that it could have been printed off bigger and the contrast could have been increased more.
Extension: It would be interesting to do a series of these pictures for different individuals.
Image 3: (Narrative)
Interpretation: They had a hard time figuring out what it was representing. They mainly saw the light in the center. Kind of thought it was a moon waxing and waning.
Evaluation: They thought that it would have been better if i incorporated the light more into the actual photo.
Extension: Doing multiple narratives using silhouettes.
Image 4: (Miniature)
Interpretation: They were not sure what it was at first. They could tell that it was a orange mouth withing my mouth but they did no understand how it was a miniature.
Evaluation: They thought that it would have been better if the orange was in a setting that made it look larger.
Extension: Creating many things out of orange.
Interpretation: People that represent people are composed in the mask. Hiding behind friends and family. eyes are the windows into soul everything else is representational.
Evaluation: maybe have different parts included in the composition. Thought that it was interesting but maybe could have been done differently but they due not know how.
Extension: Maybe creating masks for multiple people.
Image 2: (Constructed Identity 2)
Interpretation: Looks like multiple expressions of a person. Shows the many facial expressions people can make.
Evaluation: They thought that it could have been printed off bigger and the contrast could have been increased more.
Extension: It would be interesting to do a series of these pictures for different individuals.
Image 3: (Narrative)
Interpretation: They had a hard time figuring out what it was representing. They mainly saw the light in the center. Kind of thought it was a moon waxing and waning.
Evaluation: They thought that it would have been better if i incorporated the light more into the actual photo.
Extension: Doing multiple narratives using silhouettes.
Image 4: (Miniature)
Interpretation: They were not sure what it was at first. They could tell that it was a orange mouth withing my mouth but they did no understand how it was a miniature.
Evaluation: They thought that it would have been better if the orange was in a setting that made it look larger.
Extension: Creating many things out of orange.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Project #5 Part 1
Image 1(Constructed Identity):
Composition: I wanted the image to capture as many photographs around my face as possible. I was not sure as to what to have as the background. I wanted the audience to be able to see the pictures around my face clearly but still able to see my eyes and be able to tell it is me in the image.
Concept: The whole idea behind this image is finding out who i am by looking at who i have grown up with as a way to tell something about my personality and my life. I thought it would be interesting to have people try to figure out who i am by looking at who i know.
Method: I took a mask that i have and i attached many photos of my friends and family. I think Took a picture of myself that included some of my body and then none at all. The ones of my head you only can see my eyes. Which some people say that you can see into a persons soul through their eyes.
Motivations: I wanted people to try and figure out the persons identity/personality by looking at everyone that is in their life.
Context: I think that this probably relates to many other artists and ways of creating identity.
Image 2 (constructed identity 2):
Composition: I wanted to create many aspects of an individuals personality. Originally i wanted the Main image to come through all the small ones but i was unable to have it look i wanted it to.
Concept: My image is about capturing many facial expressions and bringing them together in order to try and give a look at my personality or the many expressions that humans give.
Method: I took multiple images of me making many different faces and i put them over top a bigger picture. I was wanting the bigger picture to come through but it did not work how i wanted it to so i left it so that all the smaller pictures are on the top. So now this image is called hidden Identity.
Motivations: I wanted to capture the facial expressions that humans tend to make every day.
Context: This are essentially many self portraits put together in order to create an identity from them all. Many artists take pictures similar to these.
Image 3 (narrative):
Composition: I wanted the image to be a shadow of the person so that there would be no detail of them. That way all you would see is the transition of what the person would be doing. I wanted to include the background because to me it added to more to the narrative.
Concept: I wanted to created a narrative using as little detail as possible within the person them self. I wanted the focus to be more on the glass because that is the object that was moving within the frame.
Method: I had to position the lights at a specific spot behind me in order to get the shadow effect i was looking for. I also positioned the glass in a specific spot so that the light would hit it in just a specific way.
Motivations: My goal was to create a narrative through a shadow. I think that i succeed in the way that i wanted to even though the lighting is not quite what i wanted but it was the best that i could do.
Context: I do not know if this relates to any other artists.
Image 4 (miniature):
Composition: I wanted to be able to create a mouth from an orange and in order to tell that it was an orange. I originally wanted the orange to be on its own but it seemed not to work the way i wanted:
Concept: I wanted to create a double of the mouth on the orange so that the orange could kind of become a person in a way. It really was only noticeable when it was next to my mouth.
Method: I carved the orange a mouth or what looked like a mouth and then i took pictures of it with many different angles and with different backgrounds but it only seemed to work next to mouth.
Motivations: I thought that it would be interesting to create a mouth in an orange. It made me laugh the whole time i did it.
Context: I do not think this falls into any photographers way of doing things or actually doing things.
Composition: I wanted the image to capture as many photographs around my face as possible. I was not sure as to what to have as the background. I wanted the audience to be able to see the pictures around my face clearly but still able to see my eyes and be able to tell it is me in the image.
Concept: The whole idea behind this image is finding out who i am by looking at who i have grown up with as a way to tell something about my personality and my life. I thought it would be interesting to have people try to figure out who i am by looking at who i know.
Method: I took a mask that i have and i attached many photos of my friends and family. I think Took a picture of myself that included some of my body and then none at all. The ones of my head you only can see my eyes. Which some people say that you can see into a persons soul through their eyes.
Motivations: I wanted people to try and figure out the persons identity/personality by looking at everyone that is in their life.
Context: I think that this probably relates to many other artists and ways of creating identity.
Image 2 (constructed identity 2):
Composition: I wanted to create many aspects of an individuals personality. Originally i wanted the Main image to come through all the small ones but i was unable to have it look i wanted it to.
Concept: My image is about capturing many facial expressions and bringing them together in order to try and give a look at my personality or the many expressions that humans give.
Method: I took multiple images of me making many different faces and i put them over top a bigger picture. I was wanting the bigger picture to come through but it did not work how i wanted it to so i left it so that all the smaller pictures are on the top. So now this image is called hidden Identity.
Motivations: I wanted to capture the facial expressions that humans tend to make every day.
Context: This are essentially many self portraits put together in order to create an identity from them all. Many artists take pictures similar to these.
Image 3 (narrative):
Composition: I wanted the image to be a shadow of the person so that there would be no detail of them. That way all you would see is the transition of what the person would be doing. I wanted to include the background because to me it added to more to the narrative.
Concept: I wanted to created a narrative using as little detail as possible within the person them self. I wanted the focus to be more on the glass because that is the object that was moving within the frame.
Method: I had to position the lights at a specific spot behind me in order to get the shadow effect i was looking for. I also positioned the glass in a specific spot so that the light would hit it in just a specific way.
Motivations: My goal was to create a narrative through a shadow. I think that i succeed in the way that i wanted to even though the lighting is not quite what i wanted but it was the best that i could do.
Context: I do not know if this relates to any other artists.
Image 4 (miniature):
Composition: I wanted to be able to create a mouth from an orange and in order to tell that it was an orange. I originally wanted the orange to be on its own but it seemed not to work the way i wanted:
Concept: I wanted to create a double of the mouth on the orange so that the orange could kind of become a person in a way. It really was only noticeable when it was next to my mouth.
Method: I carved the orange a mouth or what looked like a mouth and then i took pictures of it with many different angles and with different backgrounds but it only seemed to work next to mouth.
Motivations: I thought that it would be interesting to create a mouth in an orange. It made me laugh the whole time i did it.
Context: I do not think this falls into any photographers way of doing things or actually doing things.
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