An original peice of “artwork” I produced for a class…
For my photo design course we had to create a narrative.
I started out doing something cliche with a young woman walking down train tracks from the corn fields into an urban setting, yadda yadda yadda… and ditched it for a cliche-for-me-but-still-unusual narrative of a pair skater… falling from a lift. Go figure.
Then, I choose to add on the somewhat cliche effect to it, since the “natural” original version of it was beginning to look messy, since it required an immense amount of doctoring between the 6 images I used and all the necessary cloning. Plus, the put the blur/wind effect on the final photo collage because of ethical reasons: between using photos from various performances from the one pair team, and an image from a completely different skater (who was photo-shopped to look like her) falling, all of which were pieced together to represent an accident that didn’t happen for this pair. I’m working on adding in the shadows but with the effect, it’s giving me some issues.
Either way, that aside, hopefully you find this odd class assignment… interesting? Painful? Harsh-to-admit-but-amusing? Just because it’s a narrative, it’s not meant to be funny by any means.
I will have a far more interesting and better produced photoshop item in a couple of weeks. We have to take a very famous peice of artwork and make a parody of it. I’m going to take a Degas ballerina pastel/painting, and make a figure skating version of it, while staying as true to the composition as possible while still making it my own image.
While I’m at it, here’s a photo I took back in my sophomore photojournalism course that I’ve always liked. “Tools of the Trade”.
I thought this would be a nice visual change of pace for the blog.
Much more to come since I’m going to start to wrap-up my trial judging for my bronze appointment in the next two months, pass my senior (Olympic level) moves-in-the-field test, be a first-time co-chairperson for one of our rink’s competitions (Skate Indy 2008), and prepare several skaters for their first beginner freeskate programs for competition.
Best wishes and good luck to all 2008 Adult National Championship competitors in Lake Placid this week: wish I could afford to be there with you all, but I’ll be cheering ya on from icenetwork.com.
I really liked your narrative photo project. I liked how it moved from togetherness to the skaters trying to come together in the end.
I didn’t realize that you used two different skaters and made one look like the other in your narrative. That’s awesome. Good photoshopping skills. I don’t know why you think it is so cliche. I thought it was a really creative idea. Oh, and by the way, I really like the Tools of the Trade photo. The effects and colors really make the image pop.