My final collegeboard posting, explaining my concentration!
My main idea was to capture how birds view the
world so high up, but with an airplane stepping in to take the place of a bird.
The personal connection I made with all of my photos, is that I really enjoy
flying and love seeing the world so high up. I’ve always wanted to be a bird.
And hopefully I will be able to one day. Using all of these elements,
including, shape, abstraction, texture, movement, rule of thirds, mood and
repetition, and my concentration was fulfilled with everything I could hope for
I explored this topic because, I’ve been into planes ever since I went up
flying with a Young Eagles pilot. I had received a free ride up in a plane,
working at the WAAAM Museum’s, Fly in Breakfast. I could go up flying, provided
that I bring along a parent.
My
concentration starts with the interior of the plane, moving towards the out
surface, and then going to the outside, and what you see from the plane. As
shown in picture #2, which the nose of the plane is fading out towards the edge
of the page, the reason that I’m trying to fade the nose of the plane out so
that it looks like the plane is trying to blend into the air. Having the
horizon meet with the nose of the plane, never knowing where you will end up. I
wanted to explore what people see from an airplane, how each person has a
different view on the world. Whether it’s looking at an engine, or from a
different point, at the airplane, wondering what it would look like if you were
flying in that airplane. I
started with a combination of cars and planes, fascinated by how the past has
shaped our automotive and aerodynamic prospects. After moving out of that view,
I just focused on the airplanes, personally connecting me to the airplanes, by
working towards getting my pilot’s license. While I have been flying, there is
part of me, that wishes I could be a bird, so I can fly forever. I kept color
in my concentration series because you cannot have a world without color.
People see in color, and this color brings to life, whatever the person sees in
the world. At
first, I still wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep my plane idea, but my teacher
convinced me otherwise, so I kept at it, with the planes, moving from Photoshop
project to Photoshop project, exploring my options in how I could manipulate
the eye, making the viewer’s believe they were actually there, in the airplane,
or looking at the piece of equipment. Quite a few of my posts contained
pictures that I had taken at my local automobile and airplane museum. There
were several days, of trying to figure out whether or not, which photos to
narrow down to, and Photoshop if necessary. When I was sick at
home one day, I was playing around with my computer’s Photoshop, and I’m
currently using 5 pictures in my final concentration that I was just “goofing”
with. One of my most time consuming pictures, I didn’t use in my concentration,
but I painted the whole background, then layered “soaring” against it, causing
the picture to looking like it’s in the air, the viewer, being behind the
airplane. The next post up, I photo shopped an airplane going over a canal and
sand dunes. Several classmates, didn’t realize that it was Photoshop! Finally,
after working with my teacher, I concluded my final 12 pictures, and after
having to rearrange them, I put them in order of going from parts of the
airplane, to when you look out of the plane’s window, looking down on the
world, and how people perceive the world differently.
Using
the movements of natural and artificial light, I created an interesting feel,
allowing the viewer to feel the warmth of the museum (pictures 1, 3,6,7 and 8,)
the dark feel of the airplanes that’s be shut up for more then ten years (pictures
4 and 5.) I used quite a bit of line and shape in my concentration, angling the
viewer to follow the airplanes natural shape. The shape communicated how hard
and heavy an airplane is, the body will never move, but the inside of the
airplane, like picture 1, the engine has leading lines. I
wanted the viewer to lean into the machine and have a
closer look, while the mood is dirty, and used. The contrast in the pieces in
the whole concentration is high, being that white is contrasted with black,
(picture #2), and like picture #10, the white is contrasting with the hard
blue/ then moving to the light blue, showing the airplane being loaded with passengers
and food, then the bright blue sky above the clouds. The endless blue, the
horizon carrying your eye forever. Then, the texture of the clouds in picture
#11, catching your eye, forcing you to look towards the light, then moving
down, to explore the whole landscape, passing over England. Then the final
image, has a pixelated texture, communicating that through the eye, the world may be pixelated, but
underneath that pixel are true colors, bright, trying to shine through. My whole
concentration is connecting how through the eyes of everyone, you see the world
differently, such as seeing the world from up in an airplane.
