I wanted to delve into my own family archive of images of Phoebe and Scarlett from when they were younger. I wanted to display how much they have changed over the years and how even at a young age they were both very similar but different.
The Editing
I manipulated these images on Adobe lightroom. I adjusted the exposure, contrast, vibrance, clarity and cropped some of the images. These are my three favourite images. As babies, the girls looked incredibly similar however my mum always made sure to dress them differently to ensure they have seperate identities. The second image is the girls on their first day of school. In matching uniform and identical haircuts, people found it difficult to distinguish the girls apart. In the last image, it was a photo of their girls at their first nativity. My mum liked how the school ensured they played different characters to ensure they have seperate identities and are not classed as a collective.
I decided that i want to start with simple photo shoot ideas and work my way up towards the more complicated shoots. So i decided to start of with photographing a rotting fruit over time as to represent the idea of young vs old in expression to the topic of change vs stability.
How?
I started by looking at artists that did the similar idea to what i have in mind to help me generate even more ideas. In order to expand my project on an even higher level.
I found this photograph on google images which i believe is 6 different similar apples that are at different stages off the rotting process, then they were set next to each other with a black back ground and photographed as a still life.
So what i will do is instead of photographing different apples i will just photograph the same apple once everyday, i will place the apple in a place were it will be fine to rot (ie. garage) and then i will place it against a white or black background and photograph it from the same position every night at 9pm using the same camera settings and light set up, then i will combine my photographs in Photoshop cc and present my final image.
