For this assignment, I decided to collect old images of my house. I thought I would take a different approach to this assignment instead of using family images, as my house projects the same idea as comparing photographs of my relatives. This is because I lived in this house ever since I was I born. Another important reason as to why my house is important to my family and I, is because my dad and grandad built and designed it themselves. For this reason there is many pictures of the process of building my house in my family photo albums, and I think creating a comparison of the changes of my house over the years is a more unique way of representing my identity and family.

Family Archives Photoshoot

I decided to take photographs of my house compared to the building process of my house, as well as individual photographs of sections of my house and re-photographed the images from my family album. I did this to experiment in photoshop with layering and making collages to compare the changes of my house over the years.

The images I highlighted in red are the photographs I believe are my least successful photographs as I don’t think the images line up that well and I didn’t like the composition of the photographs. The images I highlighted in green are what I believe to be my most successful photographs because the photos line up better or I like the idea of layering them in that way.

I’m going to use photoshop to experiment with layering and cropping to create a collage-like affect.

Photoshop Development

To edit these images, I cropped the original image of the physical photographs from my family albums, I then layered them over the new photographs and lowered the opacity in order to achieve a “ghost-like” effect. I also erased areas of the old images to keep the contrast between the old and new. I feel like this photoshoot was successful because it’s a more unique approach to the project, yet it still projects a strong contrast between old and modern times.

If I was to do this photoshoot again, I would take a wider range of photographs at different angles. This way, I could have lined up the older images better and had more images to work with.