Author: zeytine

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Inspiration

Mood

Coffee-machine plants from our garden

For this week’s photo challenge, I decided so capture a small corner of my plant-filled backyard. My dad’s main creative outlet is botany, so he spends most of his time in our garden creating odd arrangements, using old antiques, household items, or really anything as a planter. My favorite arrangements he makes are ones that frame technology being overtaken by plants, such as the coffee-machine plants pictured above. I think the mood of clashing time periods and settings is really beautiful and weirdly inspirational to me in my own artwork.

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Composition

Rule of Thirds Motion

My cat, Poppy, eyeing her prey

For this photo, I wanted to focus on the motion aspect of the prompt, so my immediately I thought of my cat, Poppy. Unfortunately, Poppy was not a very cooperative model, and left me with 50-60 pictures that were either off-center or too blurry. Out of all the pictures I took, however, I think this one captures exactly what I was looking for. To get Poppy to move around where I wanted her to, I had to throw around her favorite toy (a felt ball with dangling feathers), which is what she’s looking at behind the camera. Although I initially wanted to have the toy in the shot as well, I actually enjoy that it’s out of frame, as it makes the motion more mysterious.

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Story Telling

Self-Portrait

Faceless self portrait in my bedroom

I was initially unsure of what to do for this photo, but after thinking it over, I think the thing that most represents me aside from my own face would be my room! In this picture I wanted to capture the disjointed energy I’ve worked hard to cultivate in my room. Behind me is my poster wall, which represents my wide range of obsessions in media I’ve had over the years, including Sailor Moon, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Thai shows, and various others. To my right is my closet, which, like the rest of my room, is a very bright mess of colors. I decided to block out my face with the camera flash as a way to initially draw the viewers eyes to the face, but eventually trail off to the other details in my room, which in my opinion, represent me better than my face ever could.