Final Sequential Images: Effort Down the Drain

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For my final sequential images, I have decided to make a storyboard before I began to photograph. I developed four different storyboards, from which I chose the   best. 

I first created an storyboard with a hand grabbing onto some coins and levitating it, but the ideas developed after it felt more dynamic so I scrapped this idea. With my second try, I developed an idea of manipulating clay or putty on human face. It would involve photographs of hand making parts of the human face, which then is used to form a disfigured face. The third storyboard, which was the idea I chose to use, was about preparing tea and gifts for someone else, but was denied and thrown away. This could be interpreted as doing it for someone else, or it could be interpreted as preparing gifts for yourself but was realistically thrown away. My last idea utilised the paints I have and it involved showing the process of painting, but the results showing a disappointing work.


    
Below is the contact sheet made with Photoshop (File-Automate-Contact Sheet). These photos were taken on a Samsung Galaxy S8 phone on the Pro setting. The ISO of these images were set to 200 with an aperture of 1.7 and exposure time of 1/50 s. The exposure time was chosen as so due to the location of the photography, my accommodation's kitchen, had coloured and slightly dim lights that reached most corners.


    
And below is the final product, also made with Photoshop's Contact Sheet function.



Reflection:

I believe that the outcome looks and feels more dynamic than the set of images taken as practice and group work, but I can see that there are several factors I can improve on. As I had no one to help me during the photo shoot due to personal reasons of others, the angles that I could have taken were limited, which could be seen on the ending photos. The lighting could have used more work as well since the place I took the photos, the kitchen, had bland lighting. However, I like how I used the monochrome colour schemes at the finish to emphasise the darkening mood.


Comments

  1. Zoe Van-de-Velde14 October 2022 at 05:10

    Good that you have the process and contacts but could you put together your final images as there is a lot here and it should have been 6 images

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