Project 1 progress

For the first project I stuck with the Dead/Alive "theme" My first dip tic is a pretend dead person on a stretcher going into the back of an ambulance. This is to symbolize death. There is a person on the stretcher covered in a white blanket. On the other side, is a cut out from a magazine of a baby who needs a breathing tube. This symbolizes life because she is a baby; however, there is a catch because although she is a newborn, she still has health issues. 

My next one is a scan of a newspaper obituaries section. There is a person who is 21 who dies in a car accident listed. The picture on the right is for life because it is of a teenage boy getting his first car. Fine print would be car can bring new life, but also destroy life. 

Next is an infrared shot of a cemetery with lines of tombstones.  The right shows lines of trees that were recently planted and going to bloom as soon as it gets warmer. 

Lastly, is asbury park's convention hall because it is abandon but that is what exists right now.. The right shows old asbury park which no longer exists when it was so crowded and a really cool place to be. They are 4 dip tics each showing something different but all carrying the same theme. 

Project 2 Idea

Assignment 2 Proposal: Impossible Image
I am so excited about this project because there are so many different possibilities for an impossible image. I made a list of ideas and narrowed it down to one theme that I could use for the four images. (There has to be a theme right?) So my overall theme is something like “going against the laws of nature.” This includes the laws of gravity, the ability to freeze time, and super human abilities. For defying the laws of gravity, I could photography a construction site and take a steel beam that is horizontal (or vertical) and have a person walking upside down on the beam (or sideways). The person could be wearing a construction hat and be working on the job as if it was completely normal to defy gravity. For another image, I could set up a scene where someone would be robbing a bank and a cop caught them and fires a gun. The robber has the ability to catch the bullet in mid air. This is defiantly an impossible image. I think it would make the image more interesting to have more than one impossibility in each image, but I don’t want to crowd it or make it look fake. I have been going through a ton of different ideas for this project and I have to narrow down which ideas I should go with but if I am not on the right track with these two ideas then please tell me now so I can change my concept.

Ideas for my first project

Assignment 1 Proposal: Digital capture vs. analog input.
I understand this project to be two images that when are put side by side, take on a new meaning. On one side, there is an analog image and on the other side, a digital picture. We need a series of 4 pairs. My theme for this project is life and death. My ideas are to have each pair very different but share a similar but not exact theme. First, a cemetery on one side and a pregnant woman on the other side. The cemetery would be what happens after death, and the pregnant lady would be what happens before life. Also, maybe a baby and an old person. Another idea for a different pair is winter (dead) and spring (reborn). Another image could be abandon buildings which are dead and the renewal of building bringing new life. Another image could be something along the lines of sunrise and sunset, or lightness and darkness. My last idea is winning (full of life) losing (feeling dead). Also, being healthy vs. being sick or injured. I think this is along the lines of the project but my ideas are defiantly not set in stone and are up for being changed.