Experiments With Soliloquy Cont.

Here are a few images which I look during the shoot, but I felt these image were potential images for my final piece. So below are adaptations of two images, with changing certain adjustments.

Adjustments which I used were black and white, brightness/contrast.

Here I softened the colours of the rose and rubbed through the black and white layer to reveal the red rose. This enhances the rose and the significances of it and its colour.

This image compared to the previous one is adjusted with the brightness and contrast. This highlights the paleness of her face and the running mascara as well as the red rose.

This image is similar to the previous photo where I adjusted the colour of image and rose and rubbed through to reveal the redness of the rose while keeping the rest of the image black and white.

Experiments With Soliloquy Cont.

This set of images are of still movement of which she dance continuously in order for me to capture the moment.

Previous I have blurred photos but these ones were used with flash so it captured to movement and motion perfectly at the right moment.

These two images have similar movements danced, they are taken from two different angles which make the images look completely different but show different emotions and feelings, like power and vulnerability.

For me this image shows power and attack through the kick and the action of the hair flicking adds exaggeration of the action. This image for me shows emotion and feelings which express how Helena felt in her soliloquy.

I feel the composition of the body leads our focus immediately to the centre of the image, her red dress and pale legs show passion but vulnerability. The mystery and sense of unknown comes across as we do not see her face or body waist upwards: we do not know her appearance or emotion through her face. The action and randomness of her stood awkwardly with her hand relaxed holding the red rose comes across as helpless and lost like her Helena in the play.

Her hand covering her face shows the idea of hiding, her vulnerability and emotion.

Again this image is very obscure, the awkwardness of her positioning as she lands a leap and the unknown of her face and emotion. I feel the image also is very unbalanced with the door opened and her body along the left side.

Experiments With Soliloquy Cont.

Here are some more images of mine but based on movement:
This set is of blurred motion, an artist which links to this is Francis Bacon.

This was one of the images I took in the dance studio, this image like many others was used with no flash to catch the movement as she span around.

This image was manipulated through the process of black and white. I chose to do this to try different colours and textures of this specific photo.

This is simply a screenshot of the process of changing the adjustment to black and white and playing around with the levels.

This image was manipulated through brightness/contrast, and adjusting the levels making it brighter or darker.

Here is the printscreen of the process showing the picture laid out in photoshop and adjusting the levels.

Here I adjusted the levels of exposure making the images darker and more glowing. The blurriness of the photos was highlighted when adjusting this level and the motion of the spin can be identified more accurately when looking at each shadow.

This print screen shows again the process of adjusting the levels of the exposure.

Once I had manipulated them individually, I decided to lay them together beside each other.

Francis Bacon is an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass, steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds.

His photos have a slight link within my trio distorted images above. 

Above are numerous photos and print screens of the images and experiments that I did, with each set matching this led me to using photoshop and connecting the images in some way.

Experiments With Soliloquy

These portrait images are the first set of photos which I took from the photo shoot. I have put each set into different category and this one is based on Portraiture, linking the photos to my soliloquy quote.

The images below are different experiments from different angles, with running of mascara, fake eye lashes, holding a rose and so on.

I like the shadows of the rose and her face outline which is reflected on the wall behind. It creates a sense of a second being, that she is hiding herself and her really feelings.

This image is an off camera shot, a random caught in the moment image. Although this image doesn't quite fit in with the Helena's emotion and feelings, its one you just don't expect.

These blurred portrait images give a sense of confusion, the blurriness distorts the image so the face and body language is unknown.

Own Interpretation Of Soliloquy

Beginning Ideas for my own selection of images--

I will have two separate ideas of portrait and dance but hopefully both will portray the quotation.

For the portrait ideas that I have been thinking about are

• Model with hair (naturally messy)
• Red clothing
• Pale face (make-up or white face paint)
• Mascara running down face
• Use of prop- in hands rose- smelling by nose

For the dance images movements and ideas that I have thinking about are

• Stag leap with one arm holding rose and other arm covering face
• Barrel rolls
• Leaning on bent left leg and having the arms out to the right pushing 'something' away

Lighting, Set and Props for both-

• Rose- red
• situated in a dance studio
• No lights but test with flash on

Many of these ideas have different reasoning's for choosing them:

- To have my model with red clothing and holding a red rose shows her desperate characteristics of wanting to feel loved

- Make-up (white/pale/running mascara) shows also her vulnerability; the fact that she's heart broken and still in love.

- Having no lights gives the sense of abandonment and loneliness, but with the flash can highlight sections of her face and bring focus to the rose or her face.

- Having it in the dance studio isn't for any reason but it seems the most appropriate place to experiment with certain photos and lighting.

Below is an interpretation of the colour red, I feel this links in closely with the ideas and emotions that I feel comes across through the quote.

'Red can symbolize many things; from blood, to love, to infatuation. Basically red symbolizes strong emotions, or things of strong emotions rather than intellectual ideas. For example, red can symbolize excitement, energy, speed, strength, danger, passion, and aggression.'

'It is popularly felt that red, the colour of blood and fire, represents life and vitality. Red also signifies the colour of the sun: a symbol of energy, radiating its vitalizing life-force into human beings. Red is also looked upon as a sensual color, and can be associated with man's most profound urges and impulses.'

Soliloquy

This is my final piece, this task was to find a photograph from any famous photographer and to add text to the image. The best way to be as tactile as possible and with my many attempts I put together this: