My focus: Lucid Dreaming
It took me a while to choose my focus because I wanted to experiment with my photography first and try every setting in light,dark,rain, water. But after I took a few photos, I couldn't find the right expression I wanted. So then I decided to look at my past photos and found some really pretty landscape and portraits when I was in the snow. I believe the snow represents lucid dreaming. Because when you are in the snow you always feel numb, like you are there but you can't really feel like yourself. Also the snow is physically protective, as you always feel safe and when you fall you will always get back up. So then I began to experiment with all of my snow landscapes, and start to photoshop other self portraits in (not only of me but of other portraits I took). I also chose Lucid Dreaming because my element is a mixture of earth and water and I think that snow shows a great capture, because essentially snow is water vapor frozen into ice crystals. Which falls of the ground and connecting with the earth. Which I also think of snow falling onto the trees and then looking like it was part of it in the first place.
Here are a few of my photoshopped pieces I worked with snow as the landscape and various photos I took of people. I probably won't use these examples but I wanted to grasp an understanding of trying to see how I can manipulate the photo and photoshop a variety of images in the snow.
I have been struggling when taking photos because I'm not sure how to try and capture the feel I want. I think its more of when it'll happen, it'll happen. So I think I need to try and try take photos less posed and more carefree, so then hopefully I can try to capture the feel I want for my focus 'Lucid Dreaming'. I want to try and capture the emotion of what snow feels like, and the atmosphere that is felt when you are in the snow.
