For this assignment, one of our options for a subject was to choose a person you love. So, of course, I chose my best friend and boyfriend of 4.5 years, Ben. I wanted to capture him in all sorts of different lighting for this project. I played with artificial light along with natural light to light up his face. I also used colored lens filters on my camera to add different color effects to his face. I captured his smiles, his goofy faces and of course his annoyed looks. I chose photos that were slightly similar to each other but somehow quite different and laid them over top of each other. I experimented with photos that were blatantly different from eachother and others that were fairly similar that would still make up Ben’s profile.

This week we were asked to create photographs that play with space, time and light. Out of the almost 60 photographs that I took for this these were the three that I felt were the best for each category based on the category and composition of each of the three photographs.

Space:

This image plays with the concept of space. I took the photo from an overpass looking down on the train tracks and I love how you can almost see for miles how far the train tracks are going. I tried to center the train tracks as much as possible so that it seems like they will stretch on forever and it pulls the composition together nicely.

Time:

This image plays with time. For this image I was a passenger in a car and I wanted to capture the light as we moved past on the street. By setting my camera on 3-5 seconds I was able to capture what the light looks like when we pass in an interesting way. This photo reminds me as if you are watching an old space movie and you are going past stars.

Light:

This last image plays with light. I found it interesting how there is this church with a beautiful front door but once the sun starts to set and the lights in the church are off there is this bright yellow light from the Dollar General sign across the street. It seems very out of place next to the stain glass windows i the door.