Text Image

Composition: For this image, I needed to shoot from a lower vantage point so that I could incorporate the wall into the frame. I wanted to create a dramatic lighting by dodging the wall where the text was placed. I wanted to incorporate a "home" feel into the composition so that the setting looked natural and looked as though it really happened.

Concept: My concept is not very deep: I just wanted to create humorous imagery. You hear the expression "gullible is written on the ceiling" from time to time, and I wanted to make that expression a literal thing. This image is about humor in every day expressions.

Method: I shot with a flash so that I could successfully light the subjects. I placed my subjects so that one was looking at the other with a "what the hell" expression, while the other looks up at the ceiling, where the text will be placed. I wanted to create a scene that tells a story of what is going on. 

Motivations: I could not think of anything for this image assignment other than incorporating text in a way that relates to the subjects and what is going on in the scene. Then, this idea came to mind. I think it is humorous I think I got my point across.

Interpretation: I think others reacted in the way that I expected: thinking it is funny imagery. It is supposed to be playful and superficial, and I think my composition helps to make this message work successfully.

Evaluation: Jeremy said that I should have put the text literally into the frame so that the subject was actually looking at real text. I agree with this, and I think I should have done that too; this would have added to the playfulness of the imagery.

Extension: It would be fun to do more images like this…I cannot think of any other expressions such as this one that would allow for me to incorporate the text into the image in order to create a literal idea, but I am going to keep thinking because this could be something to look into more!

Blog Prompts #17-18

#17 What do you think the next technological innovation will be in photography? What is the "future" of photography? What will photography become or how will it evolve in the next 100 years? How do you see photography melding with or distancing itself from other types of media?

So this is a little far-fetched, but if you've ever seen Harry Potter, the photographs/paintings in the movies, well, they move. So if there is a photo of Dumbledore hung up on the wall, it actually moves and talks. I know that this can be done by putting a tv screen in a photo frame, as I have seen that at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando. But I think it could be possible to take moving photographs, say a 5 second exposure, and then the exposure stays within the photo (so there would be a new type of photo paper too that could hold moving images), and the photo would always move. That sounds really silly and strange, but hey, technology has come so far, it could happen! 

The "future" of photography, in my eyes, is within the technology of the camera. Since computers are said to be above humans in intelligence and comprehension, then maybe cameras can encompass that technology too and become "aware" of what they are photographing. So for instance the camera can detect the lighting and create different lighting schemes in different sceneries. I think photography will evolve to be much more eco-friendly than it is now. Cameras require a lot of plastic, and maybe some time within the next hundred years cameras will become better for the environment. I see photography melding itself with motion imaging more, such as what I was talking about earlier with the Harry Potter photograph things. I could see moving images on photo paper becoming a real thing. Or maybe, I have this thought in my head and it is crazy but I am not sure if I can articulate it, there will be lenses that capture an incredible depth, such as it can take a picture from one end of the street all the way down to the other end (a few hundred feet), and it gets everything in the photo. So then maybe the lens can travel in a "maze" sort of fashion, where it includes the street, then travels to the side of a house, then to the house across the street, then to the stop sign at the end of the street. So it is a lens that travels through areas and creates a maze-like photograph. I hope this is making sense, maybe if I draw it out it will make more sense. But I could totally see a maze-like lens, it would be SO sweet.

#18 Create your own definition of the word "photography".

Photography is the capturing of a moment in time, it is the phenomena of stopping a second in time that only happens once and will probably never happen again.