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Luck Through Finding Things: A Junior Design Student Conceptual Project by Chingun Erkhembayar (2015)

My concept photo has a lot of plastic forks with one metal fork. I was originally going to use the lunar eclipse as my concept photo, but the camera's lens wasn't supplementary to my needs. The sky was too dark and the lens on my camera couldn't zoom in far enough; I thought I could use my binoculars as a compensation for the lack of extremely good lenses. After I took the photos they looked good on the camera screen, but when I put it into the computer, the photos turned out blurry. I had to think of something new, because there went my month of planning. When I thought about luck, I thought about finding a needle in a haystack. It was cliche, but a brilliant idea. So I thought about it more and came up with plastic forks instead of hay and a metal fork instead of a needle. The process to take the photo was pretty simple. I had to put them all in one container and it had to be dark, Because having it dark would make it seem like you had to actually look for it instead of it being out in the open. And that is also the reason I had it be in something. It would build more on the idea that that you had to look for it.

I didn't have to do much in photoshop. I already had most of the things I wanted in the original photo there. In Photoshop I selected the darker parts of the photo with the pen tool, so I could amplify the darkness. I didn't want to just make the whole thing dark because I wanted there to be some sort of contrast. Because of that, I selected the area around the forks instead of everything. If I didn't add any contrast, it would just look dark and nothing else. Having the light and darkness can make the darkness look more, well, dark. The finding of a metal fork in the bag filled with plastic forks would portray a sense of luck. If you were having a meal with a group of people, being the only person with a metal fork while everyone had to deal with the weakness and flimsiness of the plastic ones would most definitely make me feel luckier and superior to the others. And being the only one who found the metal fork would most definitely be lucky.
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