Test Shots & Decisions

In today's lesson I found that I had a lot of work to do so I planned mentally what I realistically wished to achieve before break, lunch and the end of the day.
My main priority of the day was to finish taking test shots for each of my 3 ideas, to make it easier to make the decision of which one to choose for my final project.

I found it and still am finding it difficult to choose one of my 3 ideas to photgraphy because I like them all for different reasons.
Over the weekend, I wish to look over each of the sets of test shots I've taken and see which one is more of the standard of fine art photography and which one will make a good art installation.
I haven't yet thought about what I want to do for my art installation but i hope to think of some ideas before next week. I have been doing some picture research.

Below are some test shots I took for fear:

This is the orignial picture I took to embody fear, I photographed it to show the fear of dying.

I edited this photo slightly to make give it a bleaker colour emphasisng the deathly atmoshpere.

I experimented with Photoshop and overlapped two photos to show the fear of  dying (staring at the gravestone) and the fear of getting older (the dead leaves).

Test Shots & Experimenting

Today, I tried to photograph each of my 3 ideas using a digital camera.
Before hand I did some in depth picture research to gather inspiration on how my ideas have already been photographed. I strongly wanted to photograph my ideas in non-obvious ways, but instead ways which make people think and figure out how it represents control.

To add to the research for my idea of 'Child-hood Fears', I went around the class asking everyone what they feared when they were younger and how they overcame it. The obvious ones were the dark and monsters, but from this I retrieved that most people were scared of things they could see.
I took test shots of blurred objects and things which looked like other things, to represent the fear of the unknown.

I photographed a few of the 7 deadly sins for my 'Sin' idea, this included lust, wrath and sloth.
I found a picture of someone squeezing the grapes of wrath and I did my own version of this. I then experimented of photoshop by adjusting the opacity of overlapping the sins with each other. Some of them worked very well but some didn't.
Next week I wish to repeat these test shots and maybe shoot some onto film.

My 3 Ideas Are...

In today's lesson I chose my 3 ideas in which I planned to photograph as my final project on 'Control'. 
From the start I had considered choosing 'Religion' as my definite concept on control but as I had to brainstorm a variety of ideas I researched two others:

1. Conformity - I think that the way that we were when we were younger and the way that we change is relevant to control because we choose to be this way, following the latest trends, people and general society. Another interpretation of conformity may be 'strerotypes', in class i brainstormed ways of photographing stereotypes and I most liked the idea of happy families and placing the pictures inside a dolls house as the 3D installation art.

2. Sin - this idea is one of my favourites because there are so many different interpretations and debates happening in the world of how it is "correct" to live ones life. I chose to address one of the most controlled places of this topic and this was religion and more specific may be Christianity. An idea of photographing this may be to photograph each of the ten commandments in an artistic way or photographing each of the 7 deadly sins in the same way. Below is an example of how I may photograph 'lust' from one of the 7 deadly sins. I haven't yet considered how I will mount it up into a 3D art installation but for the ten commandments I could possible dangle each picture from "the crown of thorns", using pieces of string.

3.  Fear - the idea that we have concoured our child hood fears, taking control from such a young age interested me. I thought of starting off by doing individual research from people around me, asking them what their childhood fears were and how they concoured them. This will give me inspiration of how to photograph fear because at the moment not much has sprung to mind.

Next week, I intend to try practice photographing all of my three ideas.