Photo Activity

Today we had to take 6 photos in our groups, each photo we represented had to represent one of the following words: Claustrophobic, paranoid, mysterious, city, euphoria, hysteria, contentment, happiness, anguish, confusion, depression, future, passion, electrify, calm, disorder, quick, spiky through, twist and hang. the six we chose to do were: Claustrophobic, mysterious, happiness, depression, quick and city.

I was pleased with the way most of them came out. The four I've decided to analyse are mysterious, happiness, depression and quick.

Quick :

This picture represents "quick". we decided to take the picture outside and caught Alvin in mid motion to create a blur effect. I edited it a bit more in photoshop to maximise the the motion blur effect.

This picture represents depression. we took a low shot of me to show the big space behind the subject of the picture. we also wanted the subject (me) to take as little space as possible on the photo and we decided to place me in the corner to make me seem isolated. we tried to minimise the light on the subject to make the picture look dark and miserable. also the emotion and body language portrays the feelling of depression.

This picture represented Happiness. We wanted to litterally capture the moment of Beverely jumping for joy. We tok the picture in well lit area on the stairs. Her facial expressions shows her happiness as well. This contrasts well with the picture before of depression.

This picture represented mysterious.

To create a mysterious feel to the photo we decided to take an extreme close up only showing Beverely's eye and a bit around her eyes as well. The out of focus blur was accidental but actually helps increase the feeling of mysterious making the picture not look very clear.