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Extending Specialist Techniques - Representing a demon

Using my friend as a model, I am expressing the 'demon' inside of me. I got her to wear a black dress, dark make-up and mess her hair up while looking stressed and making slight un-calming movements while I shoot photo's on slow shutter speed. I did that because that is how I picture the demon that is within me, not that I'm fucking crazy or that, but I assume we all have that satan side to us, even if it never gets revealed. This is a representation of the feelings I sometimes get but do not show them - which is expressed through a different person because when I have those thoughts and feelings I am not myself.

These photographs are inspired by Francesca Woodman's creepy slow shutter speed photography.

Extending Specialist Techniques - dark

I had a very successful shoot, I wrapped Shannon up in some dark cloth to only show small areas of her face/ arms. Being quite dark, but calming at the same time - these photo's are very satisfying for me to look at and I really enjoyed taking them, again, representing my inner self through someone else. EMOTION

FMP - social documents (phone camera)

Whilst concentrating more on myself for this unit, I am still looking into social documentation, but with these kind of photos it's difficult as they are out of control. My brain doesn't function well enough when I'm fucked to take photographs good in quality - but that's what makes them what they are. I'm picking up my disposable camera images later today so I am hoping there are some interesting images that come out.

The following photos are taken in - god knows where and god knows why... My main model here is my friend Anna and that's all I know... How am I meant to come up with annotations if I don't even know what's happening?

Extending Specialist Techqniques - today not so good

Surface pattern - linking and playing about

Been looking at the 1980's for one of my decades in surface pattern, I looked at the most popular music from the charts around that time. 'Eye of the Tiger' by survivor was one of them, that's a very well known song, it brings quite a visual image into mind - A tiger eye. Got a picture online of a tiger and worked from that to create a pattern on Photoshop, below screenshots of the steps I took to create pattern.

I used magnetic tool to roughly select the eye, I didn't want it to be neat as I knew I wanted it to turn out quite abstract.

On a new document I then repeatedly pasted the eye vertically to mess it up a bit, influenced by George Baselitz's works of art, also from the 1980s which were done upside-down.

I then messed about with colours and cut out random shapes using magnetic tool and displaced them to create something out of control.

This is what I came up with in the end.