Conceptual
For this assignment I sort of took the idea of self-portrait literally. All of
these photos were taken specifically for this assignment. I come from
a photography and cinematography background so the story that I
was attempting to tell was sort of a cartoon world bleeding into reality.
Thus many of my cartoon images were taken from sketchbooks, or the Internet.
I had this concept before taking many of these photos so the interaction
between the cartoon images and myself was intentional. They appear
to exist in this world but I am not, personally, interacting with these
cartoon images until the last photo, with mobster monkey and myself.
The main concept was to incorporate a cartoon feeling into all the photos
but as I worked on this concept the cartoons became somewhat redundant.
I than began exploring differing ways of displaying reality and trying
to make the reality, depicted in these photos, as non-realistic as possible.
The colors used were my attempt to create a world of both fantasy
and reality and hopefully everyone enjoys them as much as I did making them.
Technical
All of these photos were taken with the idea of distance in mind.
I tried to use the cartoons in the background attempting to display
depth in a 2-d world. The photos were an intentional way of
displaying foreground and background. I tried to place myself
as the focal point in the photo but to use the background to my advantage
in creating another world.
In my attempt to create this other world I used a lot of adjustment modes
as well as color overlay. All of the cartoon images used were their
own separate layer and I attempted to have it interact with the original
photo. I used a lot of adjustments to hue and saturation and added
tons of color to almost every photo. These photos were all shot
being slightly overexposed so when I overlaid them they added a sort
of richness to themselves. I feel that the extreme adjustments , hopefully
make the viewer not see them as a depiction of reality but as a world
that has some how blended with pop art.
