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Independent #1: The Informal “Family Photo Album”

At the beginning of the course, we looked at many different kinds of photos, and I remember one in particular depicting a mother and son eating dinner at a table. The colors were dark and added to the mood, and the whole photo looked very theatrical, with the way it was framed and the models’ expressions. Later we looked at photos by Eggleston, many of them portraits of regular people in the 60’s or 70’s. These intrigued me, too, and they gave me the idea to try taking portraits of regular life at its most interesting. To accomplish this, I didn’t do a lot of editing, except adjusting the colors to make them more natural. Sometimes I tried to make the photos look like frozen frames of movies, either through their subject matter or the way they were framed. I think photos 2 and 3 were more successful at looking like shots from films. I like the humor in 2, with the two dogs in a separate scene below, unnoticed by the people. I like that 3 is a little quirky, with the model’s very informal position and the different heights of the two lamps. I thought photos 1 and 4 fit the theme because they are thoughtful and might evoke emotions in the viewer; for example, photo 1 shows that feeling of excitement and intrigue a child might have on Christmas morning.