During year 12 and the summer of 2018 I took some pictures of people or things I thought deserved to be captured, as I either had my phone or camera at me, and had the urge to experiment to see how it would look in a picture. This first one I took on a trip to Hungary, on my phone, and edited on VSCOCam. I thought the neutral, brown color palette looked very pleasing, and I liked the minimalism of the picture, something which, after some self-analysis, realised that I always enjoy and look for in picture or video. This one was taken in Greece, in a historical, dome shaped building. The metal stairs and the dark interior, and the sunlight were a good combination. Also, my sister volunteered to be my model, and I was grateful to have someone to take the pictures of, rather than simply the building. Her hopeful expression, bright eyes and hand reaching out to the camera make for a great picture. These following self portraits were also taken in Greece, in my hotel room. I wanted some pictures of myself, but everyone was sleeping so I had to improvise. I put the camera on the sofa, having a 10 second timer, time in which I ran to my place and posed spontaneously. What I liked the most if the way the light made me look different, either it highlighted only silhouette, or created a nice, sort of 'half shadow' on me. In all pictures though, the dim light, along with the neutral colored furniture create a moody atmosphere. This is an older picture that I took in my hotel room. I didn't plan to take any pictures, but as my tea was done, and put my glasses on the table near my newly bought book, I thought it looked like an 'Instagram-worthy' picture of a nice morning cup of tea. What I also did, for one of the first times, was to increase the shadows a lot, to give it a faded look, and turned out to look very aesthteic.
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After I edited my video, I thought it would be appropriate to try to combine the two artists, Lana and Sevdaliza, in some way, so the idea of editing in that vintage, saturated way came to my mind. I took a picture of Sevdaliza that wasn't too edited and upped the saturation, added black borders, made it grainer and tinted it purple and blue, to become similar to how Lana would edit her pictures and videos.
Sevda, or any artist for that matter usually maintains the same look in all their work (website, album cover etc.), so seeing her in a different posture was fun. Even though it was interesting to change her image, I believe the way she portrays and brands herself now works way better with her style of music. |
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