Final Project for Photography 3-4

Reflection: In my final project, I decided to take a picture of my parents and capture this cute moment as the sunset is setting in the background. The sunset ultimately emphasizes their strong relationship. Initially, the photo is combined with a landscape and a portrait which demonstrates a renovation. The tone of the picture is calming because the smiles of the people and the sunset merges together nicely. I believe this work was a success because it illustrates the importance of a bonding relationship is.

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Love and Affection

1) Central Idea of Photo: The central idea I wanted to focus on was the pure characteristics that children share when they have created a bonding relationship with others. As children, we may be egocentric or obnoxious, but then again, children show their affection toward the people they love which I am trying to portray in these photos. These bears that are within the photo represent the massive amounts of love with one another as their relationships are spectacular. In addition, children are always attempt to have fun whether it may be just simple or ridiculously complex. In this photo, I also wanted to show that these bears stopped for a brief moment, like a lunch break, to show their affection toward one another. Through the amazing yet hectic things that occur in a child's life, they always attempt to build another relationship with another person. I wanted to portray that children are the ones who interpret what happiness and affection is, they capture the perfect moment to our eyes that make us feel what happiness is truly about.
2) Progression of Development Toward Theme: My images contribute to to the development of the theme because it enables the viewers to see through their eyes that children are basically the center of happiness as they share their perspectives toward life with their actions. Through this, people are able to rediscover their inner child  by looking through the child's life as they progress. In addition, these photos somewhat capture the moment, but I believe that real children would have had a stronger impact toward the theme. 

Rediscovering the Inner Child

1) Central Idea of Photo: The central idea I wanted to focus on was to recapture a moment where as we get older, we begin to lose what's precious to us, our inner child. As we grow older, we begin to lose bits of ourselves. I wanted to use a darker tone on the outsides of the photo in order to incorporate nostalgia to be able to capture what's truly important in our lives as it defines who we are. The Power Ranger and Robot plush toys assist in defining who the person was as a child, someone who enjoyed action. In addition, the dirty old toys bring the impression that the person is attempting to relocate who he was as a child. When things go down through our lives, our inner child helps guide us through the good times and ultimately gives us a helping hand to make us stronger, happier, brighter. This is why the person is smiling as he has rediscovered who he was when he was a child as he smiles brightly while he has reunited with his past friends.
2) Progression of Development Toward Theme: My images contribute to the development of my theme because it shows how every person no matter what their status might be can re-tap into their inner child, rediscovering who they were when they were younger in order to reach a brighter future when things fell apart. This image truly captures the moment of happiness as he attempts to reestablish who he is, internally and externally. My idea has still stayed pinpoint as I still want to capture more events with children or inanimate objects that define what or who children truly are. My progress of development toward my theme is still weak as I haven't fully captured who children are and what defines them.

Hide & Seek.

1) Central Idea of Photo: The central idea that I wanted to focus on are the interesting things that children go through, the spectacular events that define them as children. Although I did not have children to portray this particular event, I attempted to capture it through plush toys. The plush toys are used to represent the children while the Charmander, the one on the left, is the child who is hiding from the seeker, Eevee. Children are significant people who we, as adults should begin to redevelop our inner child or at least help them strengthen their childhood. The Hide and Seek event is used to emphasize on the importance of who children are because these are one of the very games children play to develop their happiness. In addition, adults are never seen playing hide and seek, as children are the ones who define happiness, hope, and a sense of imagination as they find the quirkiest places to hide in, whether it may be in a trash bin or behind long strips of grass. Children are the future to our past dreams.
2) Progression of Development Toward Theme: My images contribute to the development toward my theme because it acknowledges that children are the significant others who redefine our past accomplishments and guide us through to rediscover our past dreams to recapture our inner child. The Hide and Seek event with the plush toys are used to progress toward the development as it adds a bit of detail to how children act to incorporate happiness in their lives. In addition, the image captures how we should be as it is surely to lead to better days if we just believe that this is what used to define us.

Love and War on the Battlefield

1) Central Idea of Photo: The central idea that I wanted to focus on as children, we either have developed basic trust or mistrust, whereas in this case, this green figurine has developed the meaning of basic trust. The photo captures on the importance that children will always find a way to trust people as this figurine helps the wounded that lies on the battlefield, hopeless of living again. However, this green figurine attends to the wounds with medical attention. As the war prolongs, the figurine attempts to help his fallen comrade as his trust for him is very embracing. This attaches to the child mentality because when things began to fall apart, they still have hope and attempt to look brightly toward their future. Through the terrible events that occur on the battlefield, the green figurine still attempts to help which ties in toward a child's life as well. In this photo, I wanted to portray how a child's mind reacts to such events, even though it may seem devastating at a point, they develop an embracement on trust and forgiveness that allows them to be defined as children. 

2) Progression of Development Toward Theme: My images contribute to the development of the theme because it allows the viewer to see how a child's mind reacts to such devastating events and the importances of a child's actions and how in all of us, there is still a childly essence within us. In addition, these certain events strongly capture on how our development of our character is built through the actions we make during these events. My idea has still not changed as I still want to concentrate on the actions that children make through their environments by both reality and life-like figurines. 

DANGER!

1) Central Idea of Photo: The central idea that I was attempting to emphasize on was to portray how children always have the time of the lives, living in the moment without realizing their consequences with no worries whatsoever. Instead, they focus on having huge amounts of fun without worrying what is ahead of their lives, which is quite stupendous. The Mickey Mouse figurine portrays the child's standpoint on their actions as his worried face emphasizes on the child's result from not thinking about what they're acting upon while the alligator is the danger that strikes them in the future without any hesitation. I added the car and the sandwich just to add more of a better effect toward the environment. The water is used to represent the body of water like a sewer or an estuary that steals away their lives as they begin to lose their child-like image. This time, I wanted to illustrate how children are dramatized by the intense consequences they face through life that cause them to act differently in the future, as this instance, it would be the after effect of their actions. Nonetheless, I also want to portray that being a child is breathtaking as we get to experience the world through trust and happiness.

2) Progression of Development Toward Theme:My images contribute to the development of the theme because it emphasizes on children and their perspectives on life as they forego an everlasting yet deceiving world, however, at the end of the day, children always develop trust. This is what I wanted to show toward my theme. I wanted to utilize on the dim lighting to show how the consequences are dire, however, as children we still attempt to look on the positive sides. As always, I still believe I need to reach my full potential toward my theme as it still has a lot of weak points.