My practice drastically changed once going into quarantine. I found it very difficult to have any motivation once being home all the time. This is especially because I was mainly photographing people. I was no longer able to photograph people in the same way, and ended up mainly photographing my brother in different metroparks in the Toledo area. This proved to be a challenge as I could no longer shoot on film either, and my dslr stopped working a week into quarantine. This led to most of my photos being phone pics. With these limitations I tried to play off of weird projects I already had been doing. My photos for mom series are literal phone pictures I have always taken for my mom of my brother and I doing weird things in parks. This also drew off of my idea to make eye-spy type pictures of my brother and I hiding in the trees. The last of my film photos are also stuck as edited TIFFs. I was unable to download photoshop as my laptop has no storage, and the files were too big for...
My favorite images of these is the two girls on the couch. Because both images contain a lot of blue including the dresses the girl wear it easy for them to get lost in then environment, but they way you capture them helped them standout. The way the red headed girl has her face smashed into the couch give her a large contrast from the background and makes your eye go straight to her. The angle at which you have captured the moment makes it seem like such a private moment. The girls were just playing in the living room (i assume) and you happened to pass by to see her positioned like that. The other girl like a scene unfolding before us, a moment paused. The motion you caught gives the girl a movement in such a still environment. I just enjoy the story that is told between these two picture. I'm sorry if these doesn't make much sense.
ReplyDeleteKP these photographs have a really fun and colorful quality throughout. I think the images where the action is blurred from movement suits the collective tone throughout the set, although I'm also drawn to images 8 & 10, which have more of a still quality to them. The last image where the colorful lines of the socks pop in contrast to the lines of the carpet is really great and well spotted!
ReplyDeleteThese photographs all have a very soft, gentle quality to them which I really like. #8 is my favorite, I just love her buried into that couch and how all the fabric around her is that same muted blue, but she pops out with her brighter teal. Likewise I love the contrast between the stillness in that photo compared to the sudden movement in the next one. The motion blur really works, as she's the energetic force of nature in this place. The two have very different moods but both are captured so well.
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