critique blog

my theme was the cliche saying "beauty is pain". my pictures were mainly of  beautiful people who are dressed very nice, but something in the picture is off. example being holding a rose with a bloody finger.
erin saw my pictures and suggested that i make the pain part of the picture a little bit less visible so the audience would have to pay close attention to details. and that a darker background would make the focus on the person and the pain.

critique

My theme for this project was the hiding of yourself behind possessional objects. Before redoing my photos, multiple people such as Ollie and Emily suggested some changes. For example, in my first in-studio shooting, I had used a white background. Throughout each photo I took, the lighting just seemed off and did not fit my theme well. The exposer always hid my person I was shooting and seemed to fade the whole focus of the picture. I later switched to a black background which all together fixed the lighting and exposer problem as well as fitting better with the theme of my project. Although my out of studio portraits were not entirely environmental, I chose not to switch my background for the sake of consistency and neatness.

For my project, I choose addiction for my theme.  I took photos of my friends holding their phones to show them as being addicted to their phones. Alexandra liked my idea, but said that I should reshoot the photo of bruce, because it was a little blurry and not as good of the rest.  Ilana said the same thing about my photos.  So I reshot them.