Photo Essay
The subject for my photo essay is m,y grandmothers house. She lives in Somerset, and has lived their my dads whole life. I selected this place because it brings back a lot of memories from my childhood as well as going to grammy camp every day in the summer, with treasure hunts in the yard. I am trying to portray a kind and loving feeling from these photos. It brings memories back to me, which is why I put it in black and white and focused on my favorite part of the photos. My photos portray how much I love this house, and all the memories I have had with them. I arranged the photos in the way where you went from her front door through the garden and out to the yard to take a full picture of the house and colored the sky to give it a kind feeling. My strongest photo, to me is the first photo. This is because of the way I took it with the rule of thirds in mind, as well as adding the green and purple with the black and white made it pop. For most of my photos, I tried to get nice and close up, usually as close as I could get to the subject. From there, I made it so the lighting would hit on the flowers and the signs so that it reflected to my camera. For editing, I had made it so the center piece or focus piece would be in color and very colorful and the rest of the piece would be black and white. I then continued to brightened the colored part so that its very vibrant.