Major Project TERM II - Production

The time for the shooting has come. I shot all of the photographs inside. I ended up with around 280 images. All of the photos were shot in RAW format. Below you can view the contact sheet.


CONTACT SHEET



Out of all of these photos I have chosen the final ones from which I will create the final artworks.

I. Memories


I chose this photo because I liked the not distracting facial expression and the hand position. Also both my hands and my face were in focus. I shot it in colour because it was easier for me to cut out my silhouette in colour. 

II. Ageing


I changed the conception a bit. Because I couldn't find any photographs from my childhood in a good quality, I decided to use my face as of now as a base and age it. I shot it in colour because I did not know if AI would work well with black and white image.

III. Thoughts


I chose this image mainly because I like the composition and my facial expressions in this photo.

IV. Dreaming

I decided to change my orientation to the opposite one then the one in the sketch since I thought it would work better as a portrait photograph. I used a very strong LEDs in order to get a directional light from the top. I shot it in colour for the same reasons as in 'Memories'.

V. Death


I chose this photo because I liked how 'dead me' is in focus and 'my spirit' is not. Also I think that I have closed eyes is adding to this photo.

VI. Emotions


For this photo I also decided to change conception. I was not satisfied with the multiple exposure portraits and also I wanted to show more then only four emotions. I decided to make some sort of collage.

The process of editing these photos will be shown in the next post.

Comments

  1. Zoe Van-de-Velde14 March 2021 at 22:35

    Really like the slow shutter images here and great contact sheets - really looking forward to seeing the final collection

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