Honestly speaking for two weeks, i just went to different places to shoot photographs of places or people that mean something to me, apart of my memories in a sense since my topic is about being free from my memories. What do i actually mean by being free from my memory, is that perhaps that is a particular incident or a place that stuck to me ever since because of something big that actually happened there or it just sort of changed me as a person on a whole.
So after trying to figure out exactly what I am trying to show through my photos after the first consultation/presentation during class, I thought of starting it simple with just shooting around my neighborhood. It was what I did for the first presentation but I was actually kind of lost still that time. However after the feedback, I realised actually what I wanted. I went around taking photos of the HDB flats, the trees, the temple, the playground and even the sky – even though the sky might not have been the same since last time but it was that particular spot that I would look up to the sky.
I thought was actually just testing out the different pictures and just putting them over each other.
The images I picked out was a photograph of the temple at the front of my block and a photo of my block behind the shades. At this point of time I still do not really have a specific idea of what photos I really wanted to overlay over each other. It is still just experimental.
I remember that among the two paragraphs, my black and white image was said to have a more define feeling of faded memory because of the softness the layers were over one another instead of the harsh one for the coloured one. So I tried also using the blending method that our lecture, Robert suggested. However, for this photo i did not use that method.
I changed the layer of the temple to screen and toggled with the opacity and fill. That was only managed to change a little of how I wanted the photo to look because the contrast between the tonal values were still pretty harsh among each other. I ended up pushing the darker greys into more of the mid-tone range to give it a more washed out feeling.
Also as seen in the photo to the left, the white of it is too harsh, eliminating too much of the information for the temple. I ended up trying the channel mixer and toggling with the different colour to bring out the different shades which in turn gave a more clearer view that it is a temple.
I went ahead and got a photo of my kindergarten, the first time I made so many friends.
The sky photo was supposed to be vertical but I decided to rotate it in a way to fit the image of the kindergarten. For this image I tried out the blending method, I kind of realised the method is more easier to use and control is the tonal value has a difference between the darkest and the lightest shade.
This photo was actually more difficult to edit because I realised the photo of the Kindergarten when taken then value were mostly all the same. It kind of affected the whole image when I tried to put them together. The leaves were really much darkest part of the whole image so I needed to balance out the contrast between the two images, if not it would have looked like a very harsh contour between them. Also, I will ended up over exposing the sky part since it was the brightest part.
This is what the photo would actually look like. I do not know why but somehow I feel like everything is too harsh and a lot of the details of the leaves around the kindergarten are lost.
I have always like double exposure photography but maybe I just haven’t the sense of style that I like yet. Maybe that is why I still feel kind of lost through the process.
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