With my growing little family comes
many struggles and hardships. I work full-time, I go to school full-time, and
when I do have time at home, I am either doing dishes, laundry, or homework.
The time I can spend with my family is the best part of each and every day, but
it is not always easy to be optimistic and happy when so much is on your
shoulders to provide for them. So the emotion I wanted to illustrate in this
photo is love.
The way I wanted to portray love was
to make it look like I was putting on a pair of glasses while looking at a
photo of my family. I blurred the glasses and I changed the color of the
outside of the photo to black and white. The corners were blackened to
represent my actual eye, as I if I were putting on the pair of glasses to bring
into focus a colorful, bright photo of my family that I am holding in my hand. The
structure of the image that we learned from class is emphasis, where I put the
emphasis on my family.
The idea behind the entire photo is
life can be hard, and you sometimes feel like you cannot go on any further
because the path is dark and tough. However, if you bring into focus what is
most important in life, for me it is my family, you begin to realize that how
you perceive the world around you is what will shape the feelings you have
towards life. Do not focus on
the gray, blurry aspects of life, but focus on the people and things you love. The world is perceived in the eye of the beholder, so make sure you are focusing on what makes you most happy, and then it becomes clear that it is love that conquers all fear.
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I love the emotion that you can feel in this photograph. The illusion of the glasses on the picture really makes me feel like I can see through someone else's eyes!
ReplyDeleteThe illusion is awesome! I love how you use color and light to show the difference between what's important and what's not. It's something I understood without you telling me.
ReplyDeleteThat is a cool idea, it took me a second to really see you were holding a picture, but after I saw it, it is fantastic!
ReplyDeleteWow - what a unique perspective! I like how you put a vignette around the corners to help enhance the center.
ReplyDeleteSam, this is really cool. The focus is amazing. I love the natural border that happens by looking through the lens of the glasses. Really nicely done my friend.
ReplyDeleteWow, I really love your message! And that baby-how adorable! Having an actual frame for your photo is a very unique idea.
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