Friday, November 14, 2008

Series of four

OK so this is my series of four. In my series I wanted to show that Mirrors can explain my life. It like how the mirror reflex my life through the appearance i wear or the emotions i can put on my face, and all of this is reflected back to me. The story behind these mirror series is that when growing up, i was a depressed child who constantly was tying to be reached by people around me so they could help me out of my dark and lonely childhood. i never cared about how i looked to the world and how my emotions were betrayed to others. i also never lived as a child who followed routines of a normal child's life. i was a mess growing up, but when everything around me settled down, and took its break from destroying the person i once was. i started to clean my life up, shape it and molded it in to a normal life, so i practice my emotions and how to hide them, also how to pick up a routine in living a day, like showering, appearance checks, sports that interact with others, and of course a bedtime were i could get the rest i needed before i started the whole living a day again. I asked my friend Becca to pose for me in this series of my meaning of a mirror and how i see it. she agreed because she knows how it is to be like me. i didn't really have to ask her how to pose, she seem to know what was expected. Lighting in my pictures were hard to bare since i didn't really plan the lighting to well. i short of went by the lighting that was provided in the room i used. Then once on the computer i enhanced the light and contrast, along with the expose. That why my series might look a tad bit on the bright side. Over all my series explains the practice and the shape of a new life i took up to cover the pass that i don't want to uncover again. living it once was enough, this is how this series explains my life.



2 comments:

CMG said...

Heather-
What did you do to control the lighting in this shoot? How did you ask your model to pose? What was the thought process behind the composition of your pictures?

jesi said...

i like the way you lit the second photo a lot. the contrast really makes the photo stand out and draws my attention. i think you could have cropped the last photo to make it more unique or something, i'm not sure, but your concept sounds cool. i think i get what you are saying with the photos.