Self Portrait

The focus for today was self portraits and coming from a love of taking selfies I wanted to base mine around one of my selfies that I had recently taken and alter the colour and exposure of the picture to give it different perspective and meaning to the original picture.

Original photo: edited from Instagram

Here is the first thing I ended up with.  I was happy with how it turned out with the dark, cool colour that almost looks like its glowing.

After looking at some images of  artist Lindy Lee I decided to use the same image and create kind of an opposite to the first I made using brighter colours but still going for that glowing effect.

Then I put the 2 photos together in a Andy Warhol inspired way leaving me with this finished product. 

Inspiration: Part Two

After taking a photo I've found that most of the time I don't like just leaving it as is. I need to change it to something completely different than what I begun with. Most of the time I do this by drastically changing the contrast, brightness and colour hue and saturation to create different trippy effects. A good example is some old photos I took back in early high school.

For my folio my photographs won't look so much like a acid trip compared to these, instead I want to work more with black and white than bright colours, but I will be playing with contrast to achieve a darker otherworldly feeling to some of my photos. 

Sunlight + Shadows

 Two things that I think go together brilliantly in photography is natural sunlight and shadows. That's what I played with the other afternoon when I had finished my makeup and needed to find some clothes to wear. I notices the sunlight pouring into my room through my blinds and the wonderful effect it made, creating lines through the shadows. I lied down on my bed to see how it would look on my skin and decided it would be a good time to do a little photo shoot. After I has taken a few photos I played with the contrast and the highlights to get this shadowy almost film noir effect.

Inspiration: Part One

As my blog name suggests my main focus for my final folio will be based around self portrait but instead of tradition portraits part of what I am going to tap into the new art form of the "selfie"
selfie

ˈsɛlfi/

noun

informal

1. a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media.

   "occasional selfies are acceptable, but posting a new picture of yourself every day isn't necessary"
2. 
   

 No I am one to take a lot of selfies but I won't be posing or making the duck face in any of these photos, no what I want to center on for this work is the unexpected selfie. The idea came to me after I realized my phone would take photos of me randomly and most of the time really unflattering but others the photo would catch me in a moment of laughter or deep thought, with the image and colours blurred in some which I thought look almost dream like at times, so I thought would be a good starting point for this folio.

Here are some of the shots I have captured.

DAY OUT IN FOOTSCRAY

Hello my fellow photographers,

Today for class we ventured out into the wonderfully strange Footscray to take some photos, I got some really good shots, mostly of graffiti and rubbish but good shots all in all. Footscray has kind of a grungy dirty charm to it which is what I wanted to focus on for the day.
We set out in groups as well and it was interesting to see that a lot of the time we took photos of the same thing but each photo had its different take on the subject.

Here are some of my favourite shots taken.
Some of the photos I have slightly edited through cropping, changing the colour, contrast, etc.