The photos for last week were inspired by a revisitation to a hallway in one of my friend's apartments at Clark. I was leaving her apartment, walked into the hallway, and was just overcome by how perfect the lighting was! This week I really tried to play around with the idea of natural, soft, white light and more reflections. Also, when I took the photos on the staircase, it was originally extremely dark. Let's just say, I fell in love with a tripod (maybe not so extreme), but I realized how much more you do with one. Now, I didn't completely grasp the hallway feeling I was going for, but it's getting there. The light coming through the window drowned out the details of the window, but if i brought up the aperture any more, the inside of the staircase would have been way too dark. So, there is a really intense reflection of light on the wallpaper which is a little distracting. I also worked on skin tones in photoshop this week, and working on making people look alive, rather than blue and dead. So, I think I did a pretty good job with that.
I played with the idea of cropping the bottom of this photo, but I decided that I liked the full view with more of the perspective of the windowsill. I also loved the way her hand was so naturally falling, and fading into darkness.
Creepy. But I was trying to play with the idea of multiple reflections here. Originally I printed this photo in black and white, however, I decided to stick with the color because it contributes to a feeling of immediacy. While the black and white is more ghost like, the color is more real and tangible, and almost creepier because it's so vivid and present. This was a window in the hallway outside my suite, and there were three windows. I opened them all and kept seeing what kind of an effect I could get from different angles.
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