Task 2: My world

Me and my sisters

Significant means important to be worthy of attention. A place that is significant to me would be my house. But to be specific, it will be my bedroom. My bedroom is shared with another 2 younger sisters. In that room is where we chat, laugh, quarrel and cry together. There are many memories build in that room over the pass few years. Example, crying together as one of us failed our major exam and laughing out loud about each other mistakes and many more.

Task 1: Image Reference

I know my level of expertise in taking an image: average and below. Hence, before I start taking pictures, I will do some research and image references to understand how a good picture should look like. With the image references, I can also adopt the style of it.

When I thought of taking picture with my book, the few places that I thought of was library, my bedroom and when I am travelling. Hence, I went on to research on the types of photograph that can be taken at those places.

Library

In this image, it shows a mid shot of the lady find books in the library. Her expression shows that she is focus on finding the books that she wants. There’s a depth in the image to focus on the lady and the foreground of the bookshelf. The colour and tonal are dull, brownish with less lighting to show that the library is old and vintage.

This image dipects a wonderland of books. The colourful cover books contrasting with each other and pages makes it look like its flipping by the wind. Another thing that gives the feeling of a wonderland is the hard cover books. Normally the hard cover books are used in movie like Harry Potter. The way the character is placed in the middle of the image looks like she is being absorbed in the world of books.

In this image, the photographer uses rule of third and place the subject on it. The light rays coming in from the window, give a direction to focus on the subject.

 

 

 

 

Library

In this image, it shows the mood of the setting – comfortable and relaxing. The way the lady position herself on the bed will reading, shows that she is into reading and is conformable in her position. There is depth in this image, as the background is dark and blurry which allow the foreground and the subject to be the focal point.

 

 

What I like about this image is how the lighting is used to focus on the object, which the the girl and her book.

 

 

 

Travelling

I like the compositing of this image, and how the lighting shines of the person reading. However, I feel like it is lacking of feeling, as the person face is off the image from. It would be better if the image were to have her face to show how she feels while reading or how she interact with the book.

This image uses rule of third to place the subject with is the person. With the use light coming from the window, it shows a silhouette of a lady reading. Just with a small gesture of her fingers, I am able to guess that she is engross in reading the book.

 

 

In conclusion, I would like my image to be taking in the library. As I want my image to look calm, peaceful and relaxing. And the way I should interact with the book is that I am engross and focus in reading the book.

Task 1: Artist Reference

Photographer – Nguan

Link: http://nguan.tv/singapore.htm

Series: Singapore

This images are taking under his series named “Singapore”. In this series, he uses cool colours to depict Singapore. As a singaporean, I find it astonishing that he did not capture the busy and hectic lifestyle in Singapore. Instead he chose to capture Singapore in a different view, which focuses on the subject that tells the story with the help of the emotions and background.

The cool colours, in his images, make it not striking to my eyes. I feel relax and calm when I look at those images. The images also allows me to think about the story that the photographer is trying to convey.

In conclusion, I would like image to look calm, peaceful and relaxing. And the way I should interact with the book is that I am engross and focus in reading it. The outcome of the image should be in cool colours, not contrasting to the audience’s eyes.

Task 1: Chosen Object

My collection of books

Book has been one of the closest object to me, apart from my phone. Over the years, I have read and collected lots and lots of book. Few of my favourite books are Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

After You by Jojo Moyes

But for this task, my chosen book is After you by Jojo Moyes, a sequel to Me Before You. I brought this book when I was in Krabi, waiting to fly back to Kuala Lumpur. The reasons why I brought it are

1. Me Before You is a movie that won People’s Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie, so was curious about what is going to happen next,

2. the synopsis prompted me to find out more about the story.

Currently, I am still reading it and have not reach the climax yet. So I am quite excited to know what will happen it story.