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Reflection Questions:
1. My intention was to create a thoughtful compositions of childhood, sisterhood, and playfulness. I hope I evoke nostalgia yet a sense of happiness from my readers.
2. I desaturated all of my photos in this collection. I return to the composition of zooming in on one of my sisters faces to get at emotion. I repeatedly use the rule of thirds as well. All of my photos are all taken in the same place (either on a play structure or the street around my house.)
3. The advice I would give to someone who was planning on embarking on this project would be to come up with a definite theme before you start to shoot.
Salutations Ster.
ReplyDeleteI thought your book was really interesting. It was one of the few ones that sort of told a story throughout the book. The pictures themselves are really well framed and go really well together.
I liked the picture on the front cover and the back cover, I thought they were a really solid pair. The way the book told a story was cool and liked the way it turned out.
ReplyDeleteHello Sterling!
ReplyDeleteI really think your pictures show a collective theme being your sisters' actions. Also, I think it was smart to make every picture the same lighting showing a masterpiece with compelling photos
Great Job!
Sterling's series is one of my favorites and I especially love her use of color because it is not black and white, but does not have vibrant colors either, making it a striking series. The angle that her photographs are shot at is very engaging and her sister's emotions also complete the series. Very nice!
ReplyDeleteColors! The use of desaturation was really appealing, and the fact that your sisters were wearing BRIGHT colors to begin with makes the wide spectrum stand out even more. Also, they are just such striking photographs that really attract the attention of the onlooker immediately. Moreover, I think that fact that there are no real typical posed and smiling pictures, which, as you said, draws out underlying emotion in the expressions of the girls. Lastly, the composition of each image is quite stark (a good thing). I was really drawn to the images that completely cut of the upper or lower half of the body. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteSterling, I love your pictures! Your sisters are adorable, and I love how you captured playfulness in your photos without being cheesy. The desaturation of your photos makes them even more interesting, especially because they were taken on a rainy day. I love the close up picture of your younger sister's face, I think it would be really interesting as a larger print on its own.
ReplyDeleteyour partial desaturation of your photographs was an inspired choice! the images are evocative, sentimental and powerful--both because of dynamic compositions as well as the faded quality that comes with the absence of intense color. you have worked to create an engaging series that suggests a complicated inner life of your sisters both in terms of their relationships with you and each other as well as themselves.
ReplyDeleteYour book came together beautifully! Your images are very unified as a collection with your use of desaturation but also very individually intriguing. I also love how your sister's bright colors stand out against the grayscale background. The expressions you capture are awesome as well as the unique angles and perspectives. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are equally successful as a series (held together by the muted tones) and individually. Especially the more deliberate photos of your sister's faces close-up and of the dandelion are impressive. You successfully create a melancholy mood in your photos.
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