#5

When the topic emotions was picked for our midterm big idea, my meaningful journey began. Always having a passion for cameras and photographs, I knew it was going to be the platform for my midterm project. However, little did I know where this simple picture would lead me. 

I started off with just a lens because of the reflections, shape, and what the capture. When looking at the lens, I really began to think about either side of the lens. Someone looking through it, and looking out on a scenery or subject. With just the use of a lens it was impossible to show both sides of the lens in a nonfictional way. So I decided to change from a lens to the playback screen on a digital camera. This lead to my modulated meaning of looking through a camera and capturing the actual image versus capturing what the photographer is seeing.

In this I have different layers in my background or different meaningful places, and the same images are layered in the camera with a picture of my boyfriend and I overlapping it. Representing that through all this meaningful places and things, I still see him. But after going through pictures and trying to find more meaning, I slightly changed my idea.

Where the background image is what everyone else sees and through the camera is what I see when I look out on the lake. Instead of adding many layers to the background like before, I subtly added my dog into the water and a script ohio into the sky. I put these in the large picture and idea because I know that I am not the only one that thinks of them when they look out on the lake. I learned a lot about myself and my emotions throughout this project. I didn't do anything technical and I think the simplicity complemented my idea and my journey throughout creating my midterm. 

What was a challenge? HA quiz #2 was a hot mess. I over estimated my skills to change an already photoshopped picture and it definitely showed. 

I don't even know where to begin on stating the problems and the obvious photoshopped points. On that note, I'm not even going to go there because it makes me cringe. But for the purpose of this blog I will focus on the frosted lips. I was trying to go for a lighter color and had the brilliant idea to draw them on, FAIL. So in the following quiz, and a little help from Brian, I used a new technique. Creating a new layer and changing the opacity and color around the lips and finally using the eraser tool to clean up the edges, I achieved a natural looking lip. 

The before and after picture compared to my quiz #2 doesn't even need an explanation. But I remember being so proud of my quiz #3 and yet when I pulled it up to put on my blog, I already can see things I would have done differently or changed. I love how I can see and feel my progress within photoshop and with creating new and fresh ideas. 

By the looks of my quizzes, I obviously come up with better ideas than executing them. Thats why my midterm, shown above, is the best example for showing of my meaning. I love creating art but I struggle with coming up with big ideas. I feel like the midterm was so successful for me because I had a little push in the beginning to point me towards a certain direction. Thats also why I struggled more with the open ended quizzes and finding a purpose to my final.