Album Concentration: Wicked

 

Defying Gravity: I created this picture off of one of my favorite songs from the album "Defying Gravity" When I listened to this song, I knew i wanted to take a more literal approach and make myself seem as if I'm floating. My favorite part of this photo is the way my dress is wrapped around my legs as if it was floating in a way. 

Thanks Goodness: This photo was taken from the song "Thank Goodness" For this photo, I took a specific line "I couldn't be happier" as inspiration for this photo. While the song may seem bright and cheery, there is a sadder meaning behind the words that are sung. When I heard of the line "I couldn't be happier" I was looking at the yellow flowers seen in the photo. I thought about how yellow was happy, and posed for the photo. The lighting worked out perfectly, making not only the yellow pop, but my eye as well. 

 For Good: This photo was inspired by the song "For Good" Its the song that the two best friends sing saying that because they knew each other, their lives were changed for good. I used my best friend as an inspiration, I always wanted to take photos of the back of us doing funny things like peace signs and hearts with our hands. My best friend wasn't able to help me with the actual picture, so I had to create our friendship using me... twice!

 No One Mourns The Wicked: This photo was based of the song "No One Mourns the Wicked" I like how the photo is almost slanted in a way, because depression or sadness becomes disorientating. I wanted the picture to be dark, because although the song is about no one mourning the wicked, there are few who actually hurt to think of the 'wicked' being gone forever.

 Dancing Through Life: This photo was based off the song "Dancing Through Life" I took a literal approach and took a picture of me dancing (or at least attempting to dance as I'm not actually a dancer) I really a simple picture of someone dancing for this photo because dancing is something I've always been amazed by, and throughout the song its a way to move throughout life.

Something Bad: The inspiration of this photo was the song "Something Bad" although the song is talking about the insane things the government is doing to animals, I heard something bad and immediately thought of somebody doing something bad and being punished for it, therefore the picture in the stripes and in handcuffs. 

A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to create a concentration based off a musical album. The musical Wicked is one of my favorite musicals, and I pretty much listen to its music on a daily basis. Therefore, when I was given the opportunity to create this, I choose Wicked as my inspiration. Above are 6 out of the 12 photos I created for this concentration.

Baltimore

 Taken through a kaleidoscope at the Baltimore Museum of Art

 A photo taken inside the "Kings Mouth" I duplicated it multiple times to get the effect

 Taken outside the American Visionary Art Museum

 Taken outside the American Visionary Art Museum

Taken outside the American Visionary Art Museum 

On March 5th I had the opportunity to visit two art museums while in Baltimore. The first was the American Visionary Art Museum. This was my favorite museum because all the art was completely different from what one would see in a regular art museum. For example, the favorite exhibit was "The Kings Mouth" by artist Wayne Coyne. This exhibit was different because people were aloud to climb inside the exhibit itself to view it. After, I went to visit the Baltimore Museum of Art. This museum was the complete opposite of the American Visionary Museum. My favorite exhibit there had to be the waterfall beads hanging down in front of one of the rooms. Its amazing that even plastic beads can be used as a form of art. Overall the trip was amazing, I would love to go back again and spend even more time looking at all the artwork.

 

50 Self Portraits

Creating 50 self portraits was a lot harder than I expected. It took a lot of time and effort, I had to set up a my own light studio in my living room and find times during the day to go outside to shoot. Over a period of several weeks I was able to complete 50 portraits ranging from digital to film and pinhole camera. The 5 shown above are all digital. While going back through my work, I was surprised at how some pictures don't seem represent my personalty, and I was also surprised to see other photos that represented me. I will admit it was exciting to see how I was able to change my appearances to capture not only my own personalty, but other characters I came up with as well. It was a long and stressful process, but the end results helped make it seem worth it all.

Let them eat cake!

 

Storm Troopers get hungry too

 

My favorite part of this photo shoot was photographing my cousin. She was so excited to dress up and smile for me, yet I ended up using the two photos where she wasn't paying attention to the camera. She was also super excited to be given food after sitting patiently through the first few pictures. 

Radio Silence

Radio silence can form two definitions. One is the point when you are so frustrated or upset, you feel like you are about to break. This is seen through the business of the trees, and how it seems loud and frustrating. The second definition is the comforting aspect of radio silence. I find this silence through running, because I can let all the frustration out alone.

Make, Leave, and Miss your Mark

Make Your Mark

Leave Your Mark

Missed Your Mark

I decided to take a darker turn with this shoot. When I heard the phrase "make your mark" the first thing that came into my head was the marks people make on themselves. Following this idea, "leave your mark" made me thing of the marks that people have left on their skin and "missed your mark" was when others miss the marks on peoples skin. 

The first photo represents the making of the mark on their skin. The second photo of the person pulling down their sleeve shows how the marks they made are on their skin are left there, even when they try to hide them. The last photo of the two people handshaking represents how obvious marks people have made seem, but are clearly missed by many. 

I choose to use selective color in this because the black and white images bring the darker feel into the photos, and focusing on the red draws the viewers eyes to the main subject of the photo.

The reason I choose this darker theme is because I've had close friends make marks on themselves, and for a while I was one of the people that seemed to miss it. 

*No model nor photographer were injured during this photography shoot*

 

Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope 

When I looked up the definition of kaleidoscope I saw a lot of dictionaries and websites describing it has "constantly changing pattern or sequence of color" and "whirring of colors" This gave me the idea to duplicate the image multiple times as seen in the first image above. The "whirring of colors" reminded me of the time when I learned to make "little planets" in Photoshop, which was my inspiration for the second photo above.