Category: Blog 10

I took this picture yesterday while I was standing in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge. The sky in this photo was originally colorless because of the rain. Then I wanted this photo to have an evening sunset, so I edited it with my phone. I made the colors of the picture more vibrant, added shadows to the background part of the bridge, and the sky became redder. This change gave me a more visual sense that the Brooklyn Bridge connects the two sides of Brooklyn and Manhattan. I think it gives people a sense of hope after seeing this photo. Since no matter how long the road ahead is, walking to the end is a beautiful thing. In this photo, I also see the stark contrast between the smallness of humans and the huge bridge. I hope the message this photo sends to the viewer is that the bridge was created by the wisdom and efforts of many people. When small people come together, they can accomplish what one person cannot do and become less small.

This is a picture I took of a church me and my family used to regularly attend in pre-pandemic 2020. We aren’t actually that religious, but the people that attended it were nice people and we would help them organize events. Unfortunately, the pandemic struck and the church was forced to stay closed for the foreseeable future. Although we did reattend it a few times after it reopened, it has been at the same frequency as pre-pandemic. The image has been edited to be much grainier and dimmer because it demonstrates how much the church has become a bygone memory for me. I also chose an image of the church’s basement rather than any other part of the building because of how unfamiliar the location looks. This pandemic has left a lot of us estranged from the things we were once familiar with, and I tried to depict that with my picture.

I took this photo over the weekend. This is a part of the Berlin Wall which was dismantled and placed in Battery Park in 2004. I did not edit a lot of the things. I only changed the filter to “Noir” and decreased the exposure to give it the black and white look it has. I edited this picture to help add to the gloominess of the photo and help others who never knew about the Berlin Wall see that it brought nothing but division. I believe the target audience is New Yorkers and other tourists because this is placed in a tourist hot spot in New York, near the 9/11 memorial. Overall, the changes I made to the original image will only add to the meaning behind the wall, which was once used to divide West Berlin from East German territory. I want the audience viewing my image to know that this wall only brought more pain and division to the world, and these edits help amplify the message.

I took this photo from one of the art museums in Savannah, Georgia, in 2017. This piece of artwork just made me feel special because without inspecting it closely, you won’t find out the little nuances and details in the work. This piece was created by sand and a model of a person who works at the farm. The original photo did not look like this; it did not have enough shadow on the picture and the colors of the photo were not bright or obvious enough to pick up the detail that is a person’s imprint on the sand due to work. I purposely add more light on the table and more shadow on the background in order to emphasize the person’s imprint. With this change, the atmosphere becomes different; it makes viewers more focused on this piece of artwork. In addition, it also has an effect similar to that of a performer on a stage, as if this whole table is the stage for this worker to put his/her imprint on wherever  he/she decides to go. In my opinion, the contrast between the color brightness can cause a direct vision conflict. When I was there, the person was small enough to notice what was that. I believe that the artwork expresses the message to viewers that as long as you work hard enough, you will leave an imprint anywhere you want.

This picture was taken on January 4, 2019, which was before the Covid-19 pandemic. It was around 7AM and I took this picture on my way to school. I didn’t really edit the picture because I want to highlight the beautiful view of the sky. I only changed the setting to vivid which made the picture a little brighter or more colorful. The purpose of this photo shows how much things have changed because of the pandemic. The picture was taken on the train, which was much safer before the pandemic. At the time, you actually felt safe on a subway and it was a place where you could listen to music and relax. Nowadays, many individuals view the subway system as unsafe, especially with the recent subway shooting incident. Looking at this picture, it might give the audience a sense of comfort because the world used to be a brighter and safer place.

 

I took this in early march at the 42nd street station during the higher tensions of Russia invading Ukraine. It spells President Biden’s name and the “I” and “E” of his name are replaced with a Vacccine and Russian’s “hammer and Sickle”. The only change to the original picture was that I made it black and white. I feel like this added more emotion from the intial viewer of the photo which makes it sad and could enrage the viewer too. I also like how part of the letter B is cut off and part of the N is also cut off which could add suspicion from the viewer to show that people from New York simply don’t care about Biden and these conspiracies made from spelling his name like that. I want this photo to market the level of interest that New Yorkers possibly have towards our president and wonder who actually put it there in the first place. I think both the color of the picture and the name itself would work together massively to appeal to audiences who know both about politics or it kept up to date with what is happening in Russia.

This picture is from my trip to Miami earlier this year. It is not meant to be an abstract piece of art but it does have memories connected to it. Susan’s “On Photography” talks about collecting the world in her pictures and I agree with her. More than just collecting images of where you have gone, you also bring the memories with you. Every person takes pictures because something caught their attention or is significant enough to photograph the moment. I added brightness to my picture to make the clear blue sky pop out and the trees as well. I also used the .5 feature that apple provides to span out your camera view. When I look at my pictures I get happy because I remember the warm sun in the picture and the food we ate after the picture.  Collecting pictures is fun to look back at later in time as well

I took this photo in July of 2020, during the BLM protests in Manhattan. The words “No Justice No Peace” were written on the City Hall building. I edited it to make it more bright so the words could be read easily. The target audience would be the citizens of America since we need to work on our country’s mindset before moving on to a greater audience. I believe the bright lighting of the photo makes more people want to look at it because it’s more attention grabbing. I also increased the saturation so the pink writing would pop more, making it more noticeable. Lastly, I increased the vignette so the edges would be slightly darker, allowing the focus to be on the writing on the door. Whether or not someone knows this building is City Hall, I think the photo makes it clear that it’s an important building, which makes a statement. I want a message to be sent that there truly will not be peace until there is fairness and justice, so I think these editing elements pull that together.