Exhibition – The sum of us – Lilah

Hi Danny

Here are my final pictures that I would like to present for the exhibition. Can you please tell me if they are suitable? Thanks.

Exhibition – The Sum of Us – Lilah 4

Combining words with background, black and white and main colour image.

Research – Martin Smith

Absolutely love this person’s work:

http://artblart.com/tag/martin-smith-fix-it-up/

Video on Brisbane artist takes on Hong Kong

http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2012/05/18/3506150.htm

Wow, you won’t believe this video. (Reminds me of the nuns and myself at 9 getting hit every day at boarding school because I was left handed. You mustn’t use the hand of sin and especially you mustn’t write upside down. Now I only write sideways with my left hand, or mirror reverse.)

http://ryanrenshaw.squarespace.com/martin-smith-video/

Homework – Domestic Portraiture

Trish

Lilah

Jesse

Sarah

Iain

Darren

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The main drawback I am now finding is my lack of knowledge of photoshop.

After seeing Emma’s great shower images I have gained an inspiration on what I think the background should be like so have taken some shower shots to use.
I want the backgrounds to be somewhat dreamlike to show the states we come and go from emotionally.

This is the difference it is making to my experiment of Lilah

Before the change

Still too busy and needing lots of work

After College last night and learning how to change things to black and white. I still want to retain the information but want it to be a background to the main subject.

Personally, I think this is getting better though not what I want yet. I want to blend it better and also include written information within the image.

I absolutely love the work of photographer Martin Smith.

Exhibition – Hands of time – Lilah 1

Trialing a few compilations

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The process:
Select a representation of photos that most expresses the personality of the person I choose, in this case my darling grand daughter Lilah.
Bundle them all together.
Try to bring her forward and have the facets of her personality flit in and out of the image as they do in her everyday life, depending on her moods and who she is with.

The concept

Part of the sum of me.

The concept for my exhibition photos has changed somewhat from being the many people behind the mask we call a face, with the hands that tell the true story to being “the sum of us”.

What we all are with our differing interests and the things that have moulded us.

With this theme in mind I have been practicing amalgamating photos that show little slivers of the many different facets of one life in one image.

Here’s a flower for you Nanny. Why thank you darling child.

I’m a butterfly.

Me being me

My feet.

Jesse at the beauty parlor having her nails painted.

This is how balerina’s twirl.

Hush baby, mummy’s got you.

I can climb all the way to the sky

I know!! Busy, busy, busy.

Am going to work on the representation of the elements, still having them all there but not having them dominate.

CATC production day 2012 for “Part time cool cats”

Just a quick video I did last year.
How our class has changed since then.