Physical Experiments

Physical Experiments
After looking at all of my shoots and completing them I selected the best 5 images that I have produced and conducted physical experiments on them. These physical experiments consisted of burning, drawing and screwing up. I have also presented the image that I have conducted an experiment on so the difference can be seen.

    

To experiment with this image I edited the image black and white, printed it out and them screwed it up. By screwing the paper up it made many crinkles in the paper which is a good effect on the image. It almost seems like the image has texture. I chose to screw up this image because it made it even more depressing and added to this effect. This image expresses the fact that this man is showing a stereotypical man and although this is his job which means he has to do these things other people shouldn't feel obliged too, we should screw up the ideas of stereotypes and throw them away.

   

To experiment with this image I decided I was going to write up-lifiting words on it. There are two experiments of this image because at first I used a biro pen to write across it but it didn't turn out as well as I had hoped and the words are very unclear. The second chance I had to edit this image I changed to writing in a felt tip pen which proved a better idea as the words can be seen more clearly. I chose to write the words 'love', 'happiness' and 'smile' and draw hearts. These words work well on this picture because it is a happy image and the words express the feelings of these people and will hopefully rub off on someone else.

   

     

    

In these three physical experiments I decided to burn out the face of the person. I took a considerable amount of time to do this experiment because I tried burning the paper each time and sometimes it caught fire completely and ruined the paper. Eventually, I decided the best idea that was to cut out the face and singe the ends. By burning the face and getting rid of it completely proved great significance. It gives a deeper meaning to the image which corresponds with the stereotypical life shoots I have worked on, it further expresses how these stereotypes should not be followed. Also, by burning the face it takes away their identity which means we judge the picture on what they are doing rather than the person and what they look like.