What?

After gathering photographs and photo shoots i decided that i will present them in a form where they’re not completely visible or just make it hard to tell what is happening in the photograph by editing them through Photoshop and exploring new filters and editing techniques.

Why?

I decided to make my photographs indirect as to represent my confusion about my decision to join the navy, due to the fear of racism that i might receive if i commit my life to that base, and i only think that because of the racism i received at my marines cadet unit. And i think hiding my identity or making it unclear will show my feeling about the hard decision i am having to make at this very moment till next year.

How?

I will be importing the photographs i took on my camera to the schools computer and using Photoshop cc as my main source for editing, first of all i will be choosing the usable photographs that i will be using by deleting the unwanted ones, after that i will start editing the chosen photographs by cropping unwanted areas of the photographs, after that i will be experimenting different filter and editing techniques, mainly blur effects to hide my identity or to represent my confusion for example my giving a sharp photograph of myself wearing uniform a motion blur effect. After that i will be exploring different effects to hide my identity for example inverting or posterizing my photographs.

I like the invert effect as you can see in the image above. The effect adds a lot of meaning to a photograph and specially it is very related to my topic as invert effect is just the negative of a photograph which represents my negativity towards being in the marines.