Project 1: Darkroom Project
Recap on basic darkroom techniques including: developing, lighting, setting, and point of view. A diptych is two images working in unison. For this project we were asked to take photographs of two views of the same object. Our diptych must communicate an idea of opposites working together.
Recap on basic darkroom techniques including: developing, lighting, setting, and point of view. A diptych is two images working in unison. For this project we were asked to take photographs of two views of the same object. Our diptych must communicate an idea of opposites working together.
Water: Inside and Out 8x10 Matted Photographs
For my diptych I chose to combine the idea of light and dark to emphasize the good and bad of a situation. Water, especially water bottles, is all around us, especially here in the United States. We are not faced with the struggle to find clean water, or even to access it at all. We tend to glorify water bottles, often using them over the normally easy to find drinking fountains. Water sustains us and our natural habitat that we so often take for granted. As I continued to think about how many water bottles I used, I thought about how many people go without recycling them. How many water bottles end up in bushes or the ocean? How many animals end up dying because of the consumption of our trash, or even our water bottles? I continue to hear about how in the near future we will no longer be fighting wars over land, but over access to clean water. My question I am posing then is, what are we doing now to face the facts about water?
I chose to use the vertical orientation of both images for my final diptych as opposed to this one above because I felt that the full vertical both allowed for the strongest visual movement and weight, as well for value change from top to bottom to allow for unity to occur amidst the variety of the two images.
Diptych Top 5-ish
Diptych Trial 1
Roll of Film
