Slide Show

For this slide show I focused on vintage and retro looks, but I also included some of my own best works from previous projects. All of these photos are inspired by my artist Clarence John Laughlin in their own ways. They include some of my previous works that were up on my earlier posts on my blog. For some reason my photo "Gieshas in the window" appears blurry during the slideshow. So I have it seperated so that you can see how it looks like. Photos 1, 2, 3, 6, and 9 are the photos to which I combined my work with my inspired photographer's work. In that process, I dealt with unlocking, combining, and adding layers to make the image seem as if there was nothing pasted into it. In the first photo, I have myself pasted into there. In the second, I had a geisha head pasted onto a topless doll body. In the third, I inserted a flower into one of the sister's hair, making the viewers believe it was her hair accessory originally. In the sixth, I have the fountain and arch merged into the background. And for the last I took a picture of the hallway and added John's ghosts into it, giving the hallway an eerie feeling.

This Week's Project: Retro and Vintage Look

This week we are focusing on taking a object/part of one of our photo and pasting it onto one of our inspired photographer's photos, or the other way around. The objective of this project is: to make the object that is pasted into the new photo look as realistic as possible. Our goal is to make that object look like it was originally taken with the other surroundings in the picture. We are expected to use Adobe Photoshop during this project. In Adobe Photoshop, we will be using tools that include: Magic wand, blur tool, transforming, Hue/ Saturation, earser tool, and more. At the end, we are to display 5-10 pictures that have been completed from the project, and a print out of our best work.

Homage to Photography

Photo one: Prophecy of Sisters

Pearls in the rain

Trapped below an attic

Clarence John Laughlin has inspired my recent work. His ability to capture surrealism in his photography has taught me a great deal. His pictures bring an unique feeling to the viewers. And that was what influenced me to take these pictures. I didn't want to just take pictures of flowers and birds, I wanted an object that was unique and different. And if the object was just simple, I wanted to have it in a surrounding that would give that object a stronger meaning. Because its hard to capture surrealism these days, I instead focused on some of his objects that he to used. His work "The Strange Sisters"inspired me to take "Prophecy of Sisters" which is the first photography posted above. Through this picture, I was able to capture the deep connection between two sisters who aren't even alive. The fact that they aren't alive; yet you could feel their connection, and the fact that they were not plain sisters but geisha's brought the unique feeling I was looking for. And hopefully the viewers would too.
    The second photo "Pearls in the rain" was influenced by his work "A Dream of Pearls." I wanted to bring out the characteristics of a pearl necklace, especially during the rain. Usually when I think of rain, I associate that will sadness and gloomy. But having the pearls there brought a sense of beauty to the rain, lightness, and happiness. Also in this photo, I used the reflection of water from the rain. In a lot of Clarence John Laughlin's work, there is reflection of an object. In "Pearls in the rain" the water is used to give a little reflection to the pearls and calming feeling for the picture.
   "Trapped Below an Attic" was a photo I took, which was influenced by Clarence John Laughlin's work in general. In this picture, I focused more on darkness and eerie,  rather than light and happiness. In his photos he doesn't really have a piece of work where the object or place gives a happy feeling, but they were rather mysterious and dark instead. His photos make you stop and think about the deeper meanings to it. This last photo is more surrealist than the others. It wasn't based off of beautifulness etc. Instead, it captured the darkness of an attic, and how shadows and light play with each other.