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.