Shoot 1 Work Diary

For my first shoot for hyperreality I wanted to experiment with every day objects and scenery but I wanted to show them in extraordinary ways. In order to achieve this I looked to show everything from a vast perspective, making these environments appear larger than life. By the end of the shoot I  wanted to reduce the scale of the subject within Photoshop in order to almost evoke a sense of discovery/fantasy. Hopefully I would be able to enhance everyday life through photo manipulation in the same way that the media would make everyday life more visually exciting. I wanted to experiment with tone in the image too in order to make the effect more believable, while also adding some tone and contrast within the image causing more detail to be present..

This image shows how scale can change the way that we perceive the world around us. A simple image of a window with a relatively uninteresting view is suddenly transformed into something completely different. Simple plants in the distance become the size of trees by simply changing one aspect of the image. The result allows the audience to look at this image with a new perspective which they would never notice within their everyday lives.

This image shows us how even inconveniences such as litter can be transformed. I have considered the composition within the image in order to further give a sense of scale and fantasy by choosing to frame everything from a low angle. This low angle would cause a small object such as a can or a leaf to appear larger in scale, making the audience view the world from a slightly more dramatic perspective.

Progression:

This shoot has given me a few things to consider before going into my next shoot. When editing in photoshop I have learned to consider things such as lighting and how it will affect every aspect in the image. For this shoot I worked around this by using black and white and adjusting the saturation of the subject to blend into the rest of the image better. If I were to attempt this shoot again, I would look at different lighting techniques in order to reflect some of the natural light within the base images.