Islandness Photoshoot 1

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I decided to start my project by looking through a collection of images in family photobooks, which include pictures from my parent’s wedding as well as of my mum growing up, alongside some family members.

I marked which images I wanted to use with P and X and then started editing them. I brightened some of them up and shifted some of the colours, and then marked the ones that I want to use as blue.

I like how I gave some of these a more sepia tone making them look older, this warmer colour scheme also giving off feelings of nostalgia, something I might contrast with my other shoots.

An image of my great grandmother, I like how you can see the damage the paper has gotten as well, adding a nice extra level of detail.

I decided I would like to put this image into Photoshop to experiment.

First I made a background layer using photoshop, I found a pen that looked like oil paint allowing the colours to blend together.

I then placed the image on top on ‘lighten’ allowing some parts of the bottom layer to show through. I think I will try to make more of these inspired by Vasantha Yogananthan.

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  1. Hi Hannah, have you begun to write your essay introduction and paragraph 1? It would be good for you to publish what you have written so far as draft, so we as teachers can read it and give you some feedback on how to develop/ improve it etc.

    Also, how are you getting in with some of the texts that I’ve given you on anthropology and photography?

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