For my Photo Media class, I decided to push the limits and try something different that I haven't done before. Our most recent assignment was create an ordinary moment in our lives or anything that was self-referential. I developed the concept of a self portrait focusing on my background environment as a child growing up in comparison to how I am today. Growing up I lived in the country where your closest neighbor was 3-5 miles away. It was isolated and filled with wilderness. Despite growing up in this type of environment, my personality has transformed into the complete opposite. I strive to be an entrepreneur and reach for my dreams, while others around me settled with what they had.
In order to try and accomplish this concept, I took two photographs in the same location, but standing in different poses. I used a forest background, because I couldn't find a country landscape nearby, and this was to represent my past. The subject of the photograph is me evolving into what I am today. I am dressed in more professional style of clothing to help emphasize the contrast of the past and today, as well as the transformation I have undergone while becoming a young adult.
I had never done double exposure before, so I wasn't willing to try it using my film in my camera. Instead, I scanned both films and placed them into PhotoShop as layers on top of each other and changing the opacity so that it would appear as if there was a double exposure.
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I don't know much about photography, but this picture is really cool! I like how you can see your face in the middle of all the poses. Is there a reason you wanted it to be black and white?
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