Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Final Images Assignment #1




The Top Image
When I was thinking about the composition I wanted to include everything that was surrounding it from the angle that I chose. I felt that the surrounding especially the sky accented my main object which are the hands. The hands almost illuminate against the scenery that it is taken with. I wanted to create a balance between lights and darks as well as the textures that are within the composition. I took this picture a little later at night in order to get the right lighting of the sky.
When I was thinking about the concept I thought this would be a great image for contrast. My concept was somewhat a simple one. I see this object and area every time that I go to church. It is manmade but at the same time it is so simplistic. It is so simplistic that this area almost seems natural.
The way that I came up with this picture was walking around outside my church trying to come up with things that inspire me or I relate to in a certain way. As I made my way around the garden area I was like the hands are a symbolic element because they are wooden hands that were created by someone carving away the wood using their hands. I had to play with my camera in order to get the picture I have. Some of the pictures that I was taking the exposure were not good so I would have to take it again.
My motivation for this piece was trying to capture one aspect of my life that I believe to be very beautiful and is something that sometimes takes my breath away.
Context is something that I did not think about but now that I have I know many artist might include images that some how relate to the church. These hands are shown in a praying position which is known as the classical way to pray. I feel like my piece kind of relates to the cultural aspect of things. This is apart of my life (culture) in which I grew up in. It is also about this social connection because of how we interact with one another within my church.

The Middle Image
Composition is something that I struggled with when I was taking pictures of my violin. I have had this violin for about thirteen years now which kind of affected the way I would look at it compared to somebody else. There were compositions that I thought I would love but in the end once I took the picture I no longer liked them. That’s when I decided that I would get up close to my violin. Most people only ever see a violin from a distance. Whereas I have always seen it up close where I can see its flaws, which for me give it life. The lighting that I used was the lights in my room as well as the flash of my camera.
As I already stated in my composition section, I wanted to show a view that most people do not see. I don’t know what all the marks on my violin are from but I know what certain ones are from. Being able to see that even something that sounds so elegant can be kind of rough and have life. My violin was the perfect thing for this concept because it is one of the oldest things that I have with me at college.
My methods for this piece was to move my violin around many different ways and take close ups as well as pictures that were far away. Through this process I was able to find this composition that I liked. I was trying to play with the shadows that the violin might create from the light but those ones did not turn out like I thought they would. So with that I decided to play with the lights and darks of the instrument itself.
My motivation for this piece was to share something that for a long time was a big part of my life. It is now something that has been kind of put on the back burner but is something that will never leave my mind as long as I live. It was part of my childhood and that’s why it will always be there.
Context of my piece is that often times you see instruments that people are holding or playing. Often times I feel that people don’t appreciate the instruments themselves. Instead they are always praising the talent of the musician. Where as they should give the instrument some credit because without it people would not have these talents.
Bottom Image
The composition of this one changed greatly the more pictures I took. As I was taking them I was realizing I was not getting the light from the petals as much as I wanted to. That’s when I decided to get closer to the flowers when they were in front of a dark background. The dark background helps the light areas of the flowers stand out even more. This contrast in the darks and lights is what I love about this composition.
My image is about something that is very symbolic for me. Flowers mean life to me and I have had a close connection to them since I was a young girl. When I was growing up my parents would always get me flowers for my birthday. As I got older and so to speak to old for gifts I told my parents that I still wanted to get flowers. To this day I could care less if I get anything else on my birthday as long as I get flowers. To me the say that people care about you when they give you flowers. The flowers that are in this picture are fake flowers. I have many bunches of fake flowers in my room. I do buy real flowers from time to time but the fake flowers make the meaning that much stronger to me. They seem to have life and they never loose that life because they cannot die.  
My method for this picture was looking around my room and seeing what means the most to me of items that I use to decorate my room. I would say the flowers are the most important besides the whole idea of color.  I had to take many pictures because the lighting on the flowers was not right at first. I ended up having to turn on more lights in my room in order to get the contrast that I wanted.
My motivation for this piece was my long time love of flowers and what they mean to me. I wanted to capture them in that moment as though they were real flowers and they might change at some point. Even though they are not living flowers they will still decay in some way over time.
The context of my piece is not that different of many artists out there. You can go to most stores and buy pictures or posters of flowers. Although a lot of times the flowers that other artist use are real whereas mine are fake.

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