#LetMeTakeASelfie Hi, I'm Val ♡
Welcome to my Digital Photography website and here's my selfie collage. This assignment was quite difficult for me to complete considering I hate taking pictures of myself and seldom do. For this project, I was obviously required to take one, though, so I tried to at least select photos (including the selfie) that were meaningful to me and somewhat representative of who I am. The base layer, my "selfie," was taken a few weeks ago on a Saturday night while I was getting ready for a night with my friends. My friends are some of my favorite people. They make me smile and laugh, they pick me up when I'm down and they always have my back. I figured a selfie taken while I was excitedly preparing to be with my favorite people was a way of including them and representing the special place they hold in my heart. *HA IT IS ABOUT THREE WEEKS AFTER I WROTE THIS AND AT THIS POINT NEARLY ALL OF MY FRIENDS HAVE SWITCHED UP, STABBED ME IN THE BACK, BETRAYED ME, ETC. LOL* The second layer is a photo of a shirt I saw a few years back while shopping at one of my favorite discount stores. It had three simple words on it. "Prove. Them. Wrong." Unfortunately, throughout my life, I feel as though I have been significantly and repeatedly underestimated and sold short. I saw the shirt and it instantly motivated me. I didn't buy it. I said that I wouldn't until I felt that I had done it, that I had proved the people who had got me down, wrong. This is still a work in progress... The next layer is a photo I took of the Chicago Skyline. I visited the city this summer and fell completely in love with it. For a very long time, I felt like my life was lacking excitement, purpose and to be honest, hope. I felt trapped in a city that I hate, doing the same things over and over again. It sounds cliché, but my trip really changed that for me. I saw the city, in all of its beauty and diversity, saw the possibilities and opportunities it had to offer and was motivated and recharged to work as hard as I could so that I could one day enjoy them. The last layer is a basic picture of a pretty popular spot in Downtown Ann Arbor. This is my last layer for a reason. It is representative of something that matters to me the least. I can't wait wait to get out of and as far away from this city as possible with its self-righteous people and completely false pretenses of a utopian community of acceptance, equity and liberalism... Just a major facade. Anyway, that's my selfie and my very long-winded artist's statement. Hope you enjoyed the read. |
My Double Exposure: Little Girl, Big World
LAST ASSIGNMENT IN THIS CLASS WOO!! Anyway, I took this selfie earlier this year. I remember this time very clearly because of the way my life was changing and how I felt about those changes. Remember those friends I talked about on my Selfie statement? It was during the time that I had just become friends with those people that I took this selfie. It sounds weird, but I felt like I had been "chosen," like I had been invited into an exclusive circle. In this picture, my eyes look really, really big. Like my eyes are always pretty big, but I feel like in this picture specifically they're just extra large, like eager, enthusiastic, wonder filled saucers. It's dramatic, this year has done something to my eyes. I've learned and experienced so much, but I think that it has kind of worn on me, my energy and happiness, my self-esteem and character. That all being said, with everything that I've learned, I think that I'm ready to take on the next big chapter in my life. The second picture in my Double Exposure represents that next chapter. I will be leaving home and moving to Atlanta, Georgia to attend Spelman College in the fall. The picture specifically is of one of the most popular spots on campus The Sisters Chapel.
The difference between my first and second collages is the partly the meaning behind them. The represent two different parts of my life, of my journey. Then of course, there is the difference in how the two collages are edited. For the first collage, I just edited my original selfie and then just put multiple layers on top and changed the opacities. In the second collage, on the other hand I went through additional steps. I honestly forgot what they were because I kind of just played around on Photoshop until I got to something I though would meet Ms. G's requirements ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The difference between my first and second collages is the partly the meaning behind them. The represent two different parts of my life, of my journey. Then of course, there is the difference in how the two collages are edited. For the first collage, I just edited my original selfie and then just put multiple layers on top and changed the opacities. In the second collage, on the other hand I went through additional steps. I honestly forgot what they were because I kind of just played around on Photoshop until I got to something I though would meet Ms. G's requirements ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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