I actually think I learned more from the alphabet soup portion of the assignment because when I first learned of the assignment I really was not looking forward to the letter portion. I thought it would be difficult to find letters and if I did I would have no connection to the pictures. I thought they would just be fulfilling the assignment requirements. But when I realized the letters I kept finding were spelling a word I started to have fun putting them together. I have always loved incorporating words into my art so I did enjoy editing the 4 letters to flow together and spell “love”. I wasn’t intending on spelling any specific word but these letters were the letters I kept finding. I did have fun photographing the person I don’t know. She was all dressed up for a local play which is why I called her “the actress”. The man in the photograph is a good friend of mine who was being crazy in my laundry room which is why I called him “the comedian”.
I had to edit the lighting adjustments of all four letters in my “love” word. I adjusted the levels mainly and made every picture have some areas that are bright white to make the 4 pictures flow together better. I decided to put all 4 photos together in one image to present them as one word which I felt was more appealing than if I were to post them individually one on top of the other.
I have always been big on placement in photographs and don’t usually like centering the main object in the photo. I always try to do something more interesting but when I started putting my four letters together as one image I realized I needed to center each letter to make them flow together and basically be the same size. So I lost all of my off-centering and placement that I had photographed but I think it worked better this way. So I guess I learned that sometimes it does look better to center objects in photos under the right circumstances.
I know the assignment was for 5 letters but my main image was using 4 so I also did an extra “L” below.
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