Before I started the assignment I had an idea to manipulate the photograph into something similar to a painting. I had the mindset to emulate the same ideas as Alfred Stieglitz in his 1892 picture “The Terminal”. From what I learned in this picture I tried to do what a pictorialist would do. I choose a simple scene, and decide to make the mask the man is holding the focal point.
The first photograph I choose is a screen cap of a scene in The Dark Knight. Things I adjusted were: Colour to Black and white, soft focus, filled a bit of light, I angled the picture so the mask is upright and the focus of the picture. I also wanted to recreate a picture that was taken by a SLR camera and developed in a dark room. Therefore I made a film grain look to it in order to give the viewer a sense of film grain on the light sensitive paper. I also put most of the background and even the man out of focus in order to ensure that the first thing the view sees in the picture is the mask. This also reduced chaos in the picture but making the background out of focus. On top of that a little orange feathering was on the mask so that it pops out of the picture a bit.
So to further explain each alteration of the picture I need to explain the thought process. For the black and white change I decided to do this in order to create less distraction or chaos in the picture and for the view. I find that the fewer colours can have more of a dramatic effect on the viewer. Next with the soft focus, this was done to reduce the traffic in the background. Like I stated before this was done to keep the viewer fixated at the center of the photo first. With the angling, this was done to make the mask upright.
Due to my limited resources, skills and the program’s options I could not express what I wanted to do to the photo in my full potential. Therefore it was difficult to work on a photograph in a way a pictorialist would, which is expressing myself.
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