Editing Photos

 Using my iphone camera edits, i edited a few photos. I especially like the first one as the darkened photos creates a very ominous and forbidden setting. The little light on the skin helps accentuate the ill looking body. The third photo was very interesting too as the body was radiating with light and the shadows really took over. However, the skin looks quite warm creating a summer evening feel for the photo so the tone was not correct. The fourth photo i felt was very effective to take away human presence but it was too much. I feel that effect would work best for a very distinct photo of objects, or patterned style that repeated as the black and white took away the features that some photos need for it to appear right.

   The next page the photos did not print out how they were on the phone. The first photo became very dark but the red fabric became the focus and very luscious in colour. I think it looks very artificial like photoshop is but there is a very strong yellow undertone which doesn't appeal to me as it makes the skin look too warm, which is a distraction.
     The next photo was very light, it looked to me like when the photo becomes washed out from the sunlight. I thought the edit was interesting but didn't work for the tone i was trying to set. It could work to show how she is worshipping the weeds but it would look to odd from the rest of the photo sets.
   The last edit had a good balance between the dark and light. The body and red fabric is quite lit and becomes the focus but still dark from shadows that surround them as if it was about to engulf them. I think this edit is quite fitting especially if the beginning of the set was dark like the first edit and slowly becomes this, showing how they worship the views and are being praised for the wrong reasons instead of people encouraging being healthy and happy at the beginning.
   I printed the photos out on a full page and dripped water on the pages to make the ink run, which i tried at the beginning of my sketchbook as an experiment. I really like how the ink runs bringing out the red and blue colour. It created a good mix of the natural photos and the no black ink photos. Showing her decay and loss of identity.







    I tried sewing a bone on the arm to highlight the effects of anorexia. I used a blue thread similar to the blue brought out in the washed ink. However, i think using a thicker red or black thread could work better so it stands out more boldly on the page. This could be quite effective if i used the free hand machine and sewed most of the body creating a skeleton on the face. That way the random bones won't look so lost on the page and would convey how out of control anorexia can become as it takes over, wasting away the body to bone.