Work Assigned: In the following imaging class we were assigned to continue working on our coffee table books.
Process: Previously I had eliminated the idea of using the cyberpunk effect in my book, this time I tried working on using different photo effects such as the double exposure effect to try and make an interesting coffee table book.
Reflections: While doing this particular task, I again ended up facing a lot of difficulties in the process. The pictures that were available for the eras that I was working on were not landscape ones and they were very small in size and if had scaled them up, they would pixelate majorly. Nevertheless, I gave it a shot, I tried making two double exposure photographs which did not go the way I had expected. I realized that this technique was mainly used only for trying to represent usually a city or a landscape or a seascape, not weapons. I then tried to accomplish the reverse, I tried to put the object in the background and the landscape in the foreground, This too did not work the way I had wanted it to. I realized that the “form and relation” were not conveying the message, the landscape placement was far from real and it did not make any sense at all. To top it all, the gestalt aspect was not satisfied in any way and the output was far from aesthetic. I then realized here that I needed to stop experimenting around and that I needed to start producing work that would be simplistic, here I could play around with the color filters and tonality to visually bring out the essence of the objects and their respective eras.
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