Street Feeling
Photography
Martin O'Neill
At first glance, his photos were interesting and complex and look having many stories but when I intend to look at various details of the picture will see various things that are not from the same events or same place, But every part and character of the picture creates a new event and goes the same direction or comes out in the same story. I was learning about composition by arranging images to flow to the focal point and Choosing a color pair that will make the focal point of the image. Before I saw his artwork, I think one picture can't tell a whole story, but His artwork let me know many stories can tell through one picture take for example the first picture of Martin. I saw a child who was like a white flower who was born in the midst of many problems, be it protests, wars, or even economic problems. And his artwork makes me have ideas to create stories.
Concept idea
The idea of my theme is " story of god " but the story of god has a lot of stories that we ever saw but I want to represent a story about God Hermes, A god capable of speed, persuasion, music, thief, and invent. I am fascinated by the history and art of gods such as Greek gods, Roman gods, etc. because these are things that have been told from the past and come with various forms of art. But there are many gods that are mentioned and famous, such as Zeus, but there are also some gods that are known only by names such as Hermes that people only know a messenger god But if you study the history of this deity, you will know that he is a charming and talented person in many fields.
I want to create a story that indicates the identity of the god Hermes. Firstly, I create a background scene where different characters can be put together to tell different stories and let the different stories go in the same direction. In the process look for characters, I going to look for a character that can express the uniqueness of the god Hermes, I will look for characters represent the uniqueness of Hermes. For example, the thief character I chose because This character corresponds to the character of the god Hermes. with being a thief and running with speed but even though I found characters that I want but if characters look harmonious with background, Characters will not stand out.
Editing
Using Lightroom to edit the contrast and brightness to create the best background. And then I using application Photopea to cut some part of background out using the tool that name magic cut, using green paint to paint the part I want and using the red paint to paint in unwanted parts, then I have the image has been cropped as desire. In the part of characters, it took a long time in this process because I have to clear every detail that unwanted and keep every detail about characters. The characters that are cut out must stand out and clearly convey the meaning of the action.
After edit
Combine Image
Using Canva to edit the size image and colors intensity to create the best result and I used this program to combine the photo background and arrange the position of the characters to create a story that I want because arranging the composition of the image is very important. I did the background first because I'll be able to know where the characters should be placed to tell the narrative of the characters and I will choose colors of the characters that do not blend into the background.
Artwork
This is a collage of art that tells a story about the personification of God Hermes. I want to let people know God Hermes is not just a messenger of the gods. He is a man of many abilities such as persuasive abilities, invention, music, speed and etc. but these abilities are rarely talked about, most of the time we hear that this deity is a God who sends a message of gods or God of speed. This artwork show personality of God Hermes that talks through the characters. The man in front and the man flying in the air in black-white are inventors. the man running is a thief and god of speed that steal fruits from the market right side and these man in the middle are police that chasing a thief which theft of Hermes is persuasion with charm, talking to people and having people allow that to him. The girl playing guitar is a musician that convinces people to watch her perform. The background is God Hermes's home in Mount Olympus.
Concept idea
During the research, I have an idea to create work that reflects society. I want to create a story about how humans who have power treat others and compared them to animals. I find a background that gives a feeling glumly and feeling like a crisis event. In the part of the characters, part of people I'll choose the person that has power and people that need help, and part of the animal I choose the king of animals in the different and weak animal. In the part to choose characters, I choose good things and bad things to compare to clearly see the difference.
Editing
Using Lightroom to edit the contrast and brightness to dark color create the background that gives a feeling glumly. And then I used the application Photopea to cut some parts of the background out. In the part of the editing, the part that takes a long time is the sea and animals because they have a lot of detail.
Process combine
Using Canva to edit the size image and arrange the position of the characters and background to create a story. The placement of the characters in this picture would be difficult as we had to arrange the important characters in the boat and not look too cluttered. As for the characters in the water, they have to give a feeling like floating on the water. As for the animals, I let the photo animal overlap they are organized into groups.
Artwork 2
This is a collage art that tells a story about persons who have powers but lack intelligence. I want to create work that reflects society and is an idea for living that when have crisis event persons that have powers should try to help everyone fully even if they are people we don't like or are weak. The artwork has two things that are very different. On the left side is a wooden boat that has many animals in the same boat. this ship has powerful creatures like lion, shark, crocodiles, elephant and weak animals like zebra, butterfly, parrot, etc. there are both carnivores and herbivores that are both enemies. There is help every animal to stay in the same boat regardless of being an enemy or weak. The ships on the right were yachts and there were many powerful Nazi soldiers and weak people who were about to be thrown into the sea. In the water, there are many who cry for help and die, but these powerful people ignore the weak by turning away.
Martin parr
Street photography is candid photography of people and humanity. The Characteristics of street art photography are unintentional and unique moments. the main focal point of street art photography is out of proposition angle, framing, or place but focuses to capture those unique moments because photography is out of control of the unique moment. A street photograph has to be real or features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within a public place or unposed moment. Typically, street photography is all about capturing chance interactions of everyday human activity within urban areas, but unlike documentary photography, the general content of the scene or its precise location is immaterial. when I see Martin parr's photo, I see the composition of the image and flashy color that attracts eye contact. It makes his photo looks like advertising, not real or a scene that was created but his photo is a real incident that happened in a public place. The reason why I chose Martin parr is that my idea links his photo and his take photo technic inputting the position of the image. I think he has an idea like me that sees the beauty that most people overlook that people show through their daily lives. And that's why I chose his work.
Photographs
During this photoshoot, I learn many things from photoshoots and techniques. I was particularly searching for characters that I want, couple, worker, smoker, homeless because these people express feeling through actions such as holding a partner's hand, asking for money, etc. I learn the technique of composition is a frame, focal point, and flow. In my photoshoot, I placement a person that I interested into the center or bigger than anything for attractive and in my frame have other objects in relation to a focal point forgive my photo look flow and attractive.
Photoshoot 2
In this photoshoot, I learned that taking photos with different colors of lights gives a different feeling too just like the colors of clothes, it indicates different feelings. like the day you wore a red shirt showing that you have a feeling of commitment or boldness because color has a profound effect on human emotion. And I edited some photos to black and white photos because I want to express the strong emotion of the photo, elegance, power, and classic.
I changed the themes of the images to black and white so that these shots could convey the mood I wanted. Because changing to black and white adds a strong feeling. And I want to convey it in a melancholy way. Loneliness because each image has different negative emotions, for example, the first image is loneliness, waiting, the second image is longing for love, etc.
Background Photoshoot
In this background photoshoot, I want to background about town or building and sky. The problem with this background photo shoot was that it took a long time to wait for the light to get the desired shot of the building as the different light periods resulted in different shots.
In this background photography, I realized that it is difficult to photograph unique mountains or hills because they all have a similar feel to them due to their naturalness. So, I learned to compose the shots in landscape photography such as mountains or hills.
Editing
During the editing process, I discovered that the brightness of the image was not the same and found problems with editing building because I couldn't reduce it down to only the building, or if I could, the image would turn out to be as deformed as I wanted, but I was able to address the difficulties by using retouch. It lets me chop out people or things I don't want, and the brightness is so different that I have to modify the contrast and brightness of the image.
I created a background where the reddish-pink sky and blue clouds blended together to create a slightly purple background. and create a focal point that is castles and buildings By cutting out the various buildings with balanced colors and arranging all the elements of the image into a triangle so that the center is the focal point.
Final Artwork First Version and concept
This is a collage art that means about the route of success. I created this work out of my mind because I thought our lives were like running marathons. Our life is not a race or competition. Success in life is like a finish line. And our life is like running a marathon because running a marathon is a race with ourselves. In the marathon, there are many people, older and younger, stronger and weaker in the race to reach the finish line. The younger man crossed the finish line before us. Because he has more power or any chance that gets him to the finish line? its meaning is The speed of our lives is not the same. We may reach the finish line later than others. But the marathon is to keep running as we are able to take a break, but not stop running until we reach the finish line.
Before being the last piece, I made the first version but in the first layer I have used too many images from internet downloading so the middle image looks more prominent than the others. The second version is to edit the image used from the Internet to the one we took, it looked better but the people in the sky gave it a blurry meaning. And the layout of the building still looks unclear and too cluttered. After solving, it came out as the last piece.
Final Artwork
•It's a collage that tells a story about how longing for power or comfort leads to forgetting what we love or enjoy. I created this work because I saw that everyone these days, young and old, is striving to make as much money as possible. Until sometimes we forget to send the things we love, things that make us happy when we do or live with that thing. in my country Being an artist or a musician is not very acceptable because the valuation of art is low, and income is low. My brother likes to play music. and wants to be a musician But had to stop playing music and go obsessed with working which made a lot of money until now he didn't know that what he loved and made him happy was music. This event is designed to be like a path to power and money. At the end of the path, there are castles. or many large buildings and money And the doorway will be filled with people, whether they are children or adults. But there will be two groups of people, one on the left side are people who are interested and aiming to follow the path. The second group is the group on the right. those who know that things called money or power don't always bring happiness. Being with friends or things you love can make you happy too.
