AO1 Develop Ideas, AO2 Explore Ideas, AO3 Record Ideas, AO4 Present Ideas, Unit 2 Portrait

Gender/Loss of identity- editing

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Now I will be editing the images from my 3rd and 4th photo shoots inspired by Francesca Woodman. I will be editing the images in different ways in order to represent feelings that someone can feel when experiencing a lack of identity.

 

Firstly, I opened up the image i wanted to edit and I added a new layer.
I then went to “edit” and “fill” to fill the new layer with the colour black.
Then, I opened a text box over the layer and pasted a small text I had written over again. The text read “Sad, Mad, misplaced, confused, Upset”. I repeatedly pasted this until the entire text box was filled.
I then added a “layer mask” to the text layer and pasted the original background into the layer mask.

 

 

 

 

Final Outcome

This is my final outcome. On one hand I really like this as you can faintly tell that its a human figure by the legs, and I think having the text obscuring the model further shows a lack of identity as you cant make out anything about the person. Furthermore, since the text is different types of emotions the model could be feeling, it is now clear to views how the model feels emotionally. On the other hand, I think that by having the image obscured so much by the text, the audience will not be able to get the full effect of the long exposure effect, or the models expression, which takes away part of the photo’s concept.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firstly, what I did was select lots of individual parts of the image and then I right-clicked all of them and the pressed “layer via copy”
Next, I selected each individual layer and moved them slightly.

 

Final outcome

This is my final image after the editing process. I decided to use this technique of manipulation in order to express feelings associated with having a lack of identity, such as feeling displaced and no feeling whole. The sections that I have selected and placed in different areas shows the figure displaced and falling apart which is a literal way of expressing the metaphorical concept.

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