When working on this project, my process, both creative and personal was a lot of combination and intuition. I tried to push myself for original, newer ideas and concepts. I wanted to outdo myself and try experimentation. I thought of the lessons I learned from Blur Photography and Light Painting and that helped me break down the photographs to play with different speeds of open shutter and light.
I started off with loose ideas for my abstract, model, picture and word, and worked on trying to subvert those ideas into something larger and more challenging in my head. The ideas started off standard, but as we started grabbing a handful of different lights each day, they began to get more complex. I started combining not just different types of lights, but different types of lights at different types of speeds. I wanted to make my photographs more interesting and engaging upon completion, so another idea I played with frequently was merging the different categories together. This added complexity provided more challenge and led to a lot of my photographs having a model in them as a subject, or even a picture combined with a word.
With this meticulous process came a lot of trial and error, which is to be expected with this project, but I wanted the photographs I took to almost take on a life and world of their own, so small embellishments were made which may have seemed redundant or unnecessary; for an example, I brought up the black sheet of paper every day to have as deep-black background for the majority of these photos which gives them a feel of being stripped of any connection to the real world. However, this may have not shown on camera as much as I thought it would, if at all, but it was a precaution that I went for.
In photographs like my picture and word category photos, I also played with the space and location I was in too, the two red and green figures are only standing in the strip of light in the doorway window, behind chairs in the foreground. The other photo was taken by hovering a flashlight with coloured paper
an inch away from a black paper and drawing out my image which I had initially done with marker as an outline. I tried to also have a conceptual photograph for the photo, my initial visual being two figures hugging each other as an image and having the word "HURT" labeled next to them. I feel like that provided an interesting contrast to both the picture and the word, and felt very poignant and interesting to see when completed.
Another part of my process was learning the ability to let go of photographs that didn't succeed in looking the way I intended and deleting them which became a very sobering process for me. Finally, in the actual editing of the photographs I intended to amplify the colours, and isolate the subjects in the intended colours or drown them in black.
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