Okay this post will be really really short only because it wasn't hat hard for me to find what I need. My main idea is connected with s...
Okay this post will be really really short only because it wasn't hat hard for me to find what I need. My main idea is connected with souls and the idea that each soul goes through the similar journey of being born, finding the significant other, live life and the pass away. As I said, i noticed that all y pictures have stained class in them, so my first idea was to name the project "Stained glass of the soul". But after some thinking I decided to leave the stained glass on the background as kind of a compliment to the series and I left my title pretty simple:
I also wanted to add quotes to each picture, but luckily I decided to not do that, because sometimes: the less the better, right? So I started looking through different quotes that are connected with souls.
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. ” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
But I instantly thought that poetry will make it better. So I came to Russia's National Poet - Pushkin. Who is actually one of my favourites. To be honest it is really hard to choose something from his works. He has always been the one who represented the idea of souls and philosophy behind. After some time arguing with myself I finally made my choice.
Also, this is my description of the project:
We all live our lives differently. But the journey of the soul is possible to see in only five pictures of any church. Because our religion and our beliefs are bound with our birth, our love and our death. It's quite easy to see the pattern of a life circle, that every human being usually goes through, following their hearts and their souls. Being born, finding a soulmate and then leaving this world - that's the Journey of a Soul. (word count 79)
On my second tutorial I brought my pictures. And everything went pretty well. Even though some corrections were made. First one was to c...
On my second tutorial I brought my pictures. And everything went pretty well. Even though some corrections were made.
First one was to change a vertical picture on the horizontal one.
The Funeral photo was too broad, I need to find a picture where people - viewers - will concentrate on the artefacts more.
As I said, I had 90 pictures there, so I managed to make those corrections and after couple of hours working I got my finals!
Now they look more like a part of one project than before. Moreover, I have managed to fix candles of the funeral picture.
Printing day is tomorrow. While I have some time I need to think about the contest. On the second tutorial I was suggested to look into russian poetry, as my main idea is connected with souls and russians apparently are really into that philosophy (not even surprised xD).
So the shooting went well. It was quite interesting to try out loads of different angles and places to take pictures of. For my 5 pictures ...
So the shooting went well. It was quite interesting to try out loads of different angles and places to take pictures of. For my 5 pictures I took 92 photos. It could've been more, usually I have more. But luckily I had enough this time.
So, influenced by some pictures I have mentioned in my previous post, I decided to play around with light in photoshop. I just added some light coming trough different stained glass there. Fortunately, it wasn't that hard.
Moving on through the photos that I picked I noticed that there are windows with stained glass in every picture. Plus with my lights coming through them I found that small bit of my soul that was lost in my initial idea, that I talked about on my first tutorial. After fixing this, I decided that I am quite happy with what I got.
Paul doesn’t believe that and comes back to the shop to fix it. But the sales man says that there’s nothing wrong with it. So then Pau...
Paul doesn’t believe that and comes back to the shop to fix it. But the
sales man says that there’s nothing wrong with it. So then Paul decides to call
his friend – Laura. He shows her all the pictures and tells what happened.
Laura doesn’t buy it and asks to take a picture of her. After processing a
picture Laura recognizes her grandma.
Paul remembers that there’s no pictures of his grandpa. Moreover,
history of his grandpa is secret and he has no idea who he was and where he is
now. So he asks to take a photo of him. What if it works and he finally will
see his grandfather? Laura takes a picture and leaves.
Paul processes a picture and suddenly he sees the Prince of the UK.
After the tutorial I decided to look more info 'poetic' part of photography. Even though my idea is not bad, it lacks of soul. And...
After the tutorial I decided to look more info 'poetic' part of photography. Even though my idea is not bad, it lacks of soul. And to be honest, I think that I won't be able to add on anything to my idea and all options that I have are connected with techniques of taking photos and manipulating them. So I will be able to experiment with that on tomorrow's shoot, but before that I've searched the Internet to see what I can be inspired by.
While I was thinking about the concept of my idea for pitching I came across this amazing video. The title explains it all. As I am creati...
While I was thinking about the concept of my idea for pitching I came across this amazing video. The title explains it all. As I am creating a fiction film, I thought this might be really helpful.
