pictures – Plain and White

Week 12 has been the most challenging yet. I have been experimenting and taking photos, but I haven’t produce enough. I tried taking street candid photos, but I met challenges. First, taking the photos in broad daylight to highlight my concept does not help when the sun overshadows the digital screens. Taking the photos at night solves the problem, but then another problem is that trying to sync together the studio photos and real-life concept is very tricky. Aside from the aesthetic difference, I can not figure any way to link the two photos. So after talking to Brian again, I decided to drop the street photos. I feel like I could focus more on formulating my message If I use the TV show as a source of Inspiration. I found a couple of websites that could help me construct the message & style. Another thing I need to improve is the variety of subjects. I did many self-portraits to say I am also ‘in the problem’ but I think with more people i can give a powerful message in the picture.

Looking back over the past 11 weeks I’ve seen my use of photography growing and changing. I have better understanding of my own style and I understand better how to direct my own project. Looking forward in seeing how this turn out

Progressing further into the month, I had a love & hate relationship with my bed. My bed kept flirting with me to put my body on it. I have work to do. but then it put on this blue sheet and and it somehow pats itself, and I couldn’t hold it anymore.

Anyway, during this peaceful Labour day I start to brainstorm ideas I want to do for my second project brief. I decided to do a mimesis on Duane Michal’s work, around the whole concept of how his photography works, and that is a self-expressed story. The unique style of Duane Michal’s and his flexibility photography style caught my attention. He succesfully expressed the questions and visualized emotions and thought he has in hi mind. He is expressing the reality of his state-of-mind and I love that he is brave enough to do so. I like to call that behaviour “not giving a f*ck to society” .As I posted before his work usually revolves around love, mortality, philosohpy, sexuality. But since I react like a 5 year old when talking about sexuality, I wouldn’t indulge in that topic. Instead, I would focus the theme around technology, Friendship, and Happiness. I want to visualize something that I have in my mind for a while now. The things that I have brainstormed were mostly expressions I want to tell the world, about technology and self-imagery, One funny story I experienced, a question that has been on my mind, and one of my hidden personalities. It is a first step, brainstorming, so the ideas would have to be carved and carved until it’s perfect. For the project’s technicalities side, I have thought about the project’s process that utilize different kinds of light situations, and what I have to do to achieve it and with Brians’ suggestion, I rented a camera from the A/V loan for the photo shoot day. Looking forward to how my project turns out.

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