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Finale
Our last critique in photography class was held just last week, and with that, I had one last series to show off. With the theme of "semiotic images", we were to print once again a series of three, but this time they should be connected, as well as have a meaning behind them.
After much thought, I came up with three square images to present to the class, which I loved so much, they went into my final portfolio for my professor. Before I explain all my ideas, I'll let you have a look.
In the end, I wanted to show the life cycle through images of time.
The first one, Birth, was supposed to be shot at dawn. However, in the time constraints I had, all of the mornings I attempted to wake up it was cloudy and rainy. The dawn light was a goal that never came to be, and yet, the image is clean and white and innocent looking - smooth and untainted, just how I wanted it. Doubling as an image that speaks for "the gift of time", birth was an appropriate start to the watch. I even made sure it was set to day 1.
The second one is Life of course, and much thanks to my friend for modeling her hands. With simple chains, it illustrates how life, people are constrained and bounded by time. "A slave to time" is what the title doubles as, showing how people are limited by the hands of the clock.
And the last is Death, about the death of time. More graphic than the other two, but with an interesting color palette, I enjoyed laying out in the middle of the road at night to shoot this outside my dorm with a friend. Though it could be a punny double for "killing time", it means more of actual killing than the phrase, which is simply to waste time. This death could be seen as a freedom, as someone has said to me, but in the series I intended it to be more of a simple death.
Overall I loved the last one best, but all three managed to be put into my final portfolio for my photography class. As my favorite assignment all year, I am glad it fell last as going out with a bang, I hope sharing my work with my class and my favorite professor has made others as pleased as it has made me.
After much thought, I came up with three square images to present to the class, which I loved so much, they went into my final portfolio for my professor. Before I explain all my ideas, I'll let you have a look.
In the end, I wanted to show the life cycle through images of time.
The first one, Birth, was supposed to be shot at dawn. However, in the time constraints I had, all of the mornings I attempted to wake up it was cloudy and rainy. The dawn light was a goal that never came to be, and yet, the image is clean and white and innocent looking - smooth and untainted, just how I wanted it. Doubling as an image that speaks for "the gift of time", birth was an appropriate start to the watch. I even made sure it was set to day 1.
The second one is Life of course, and much thanks to my friend for modeling her hands. With simple chains, it illustrates how life, people are constrained and bounded by time. "A slave to time" is what the title doubles as, showing how people are limited by the hands of the clock.
And the last is Death, about the death of time. More graphic than the other two, but with an interesting color palette, I enjoyed laying out in the middle of the road at night to shoot this outside my dorm with a friend. Though it could be a punny double for "killing time", it means more of actual killing than the phrase, which is simply to waste time. This death could be seen as a freedom, as someone has said to me, but in the series I intended it to be more of a simple death.
Overall I loved the last one best, but all three managed to be put into my final portfolio for my photography class. As my favorite assignment all year, I am glad it fell last as going out with a bang, I hope sharing my work with my class and my favorite professor has made others as pleased as it has made me.
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