Thursday, April 17, 2014

Michael Zimney - Crit 4 - Vintage / Memory

I really wanted to embrace steel, brick, and concrete.  I really felt like through those elements of industry I might find the emotions I was trying to convey.  There is something about the permanence of buildings, of wood and stone coming together that makes me feel like vintage has been expressed.  As far as my recipe, there was very little set up, in that it was more about the shot finding me than me finding the shot.  I was attending an event at an old warehouse.  I was standing in the center of the room and looked across and saw what looked like a scene which might do a good job of conveying the feeling of memory.  I held my phone up and saw if frame into my camera and thought it looked good.  After taking a couple of shots, I turned the phone to a slight angle and suddenly the shot really fell into place.  There was something about turning the camera on a slight angle that really helped make this photo feel like it was a window into someone’s memory.  I actually just used my regular Iphone5s camera for this shot.  I edited it pretty minimally.  I simply selected “auto enhance, which made the colors a bit more vibrant, and then I selected a pre-set setting called “Instant” which added a nice pale yellow tone to the photo.  I did not crop the shot, nor did I have the “subject” pose; she was unaware a photo was being taken, and I think that helped capture something candid.
Iphone 5s  I.O.S 7.0.2

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