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Portrait Photographer: Eve Arnold
The light in image 1 is coming from the right and the lower right, illuminating the right side of her face and arm. There could also be a white reflector on the left because the left side of her face isn't that dark. The position/gesture of the model is that she is looking to the right and her eyes are focusing away from the camera and instead focusing towards the light on the right. She is also bent over and resting on her elbow, showing how she is worn down and tired. The background and setting is that she appears to be in a bar and at the counter of a bar. She is resting on this counter next to a glass and a bottle of beer. The point of view of the photographer is that he is looking straight on at her. The photographer is actually slight below her as his camera is lined up with the height of the counter. Besides that, the point of view is mostly straight on. The distance of the photographer is that he is only a few feet from her. He is about as far from her as the end of the bar counter is from her. The lighting communicates how the light is shining on only part of her. Half of her is in the dark but there is still light. Also, her position reveals how her face is aimed towards the light, as she looks into the light. The expression ties it all together: she is is in the dark and is tired and exhausted. But as she sees the light she stares into it, hoping for a change in her exhausting life.
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I chose an image of a highway on a partly cloudy day and of a girl looking in the distance. Compositionally, they relate because the trees are dark like her hair. It seems as if the trees are emerging from her hair, making it seem like the trees are a part of her or attached to her. Also, the road shows leading lines, leading the eye into the picture and almost as if as you travel down the road, you are going deeper into her. Also, the clouds fit around her eyes. The clouds are below, above, and to the sides of her eye. The clouds, compositionally, frame her eyes. I dragged the image of the highway over the girl's face. I then cropped it and used the eraser tool to fit it over her face and neck. The opacity of the highway image was 63%. After that, I used the eraser tool again and zoomed in closely around her hair to closely erase the highway image. After the image was perfectly fit over her face and neck, I experimented with certain settings and finally added a linear burn. For the image of the girl, I adjusted the levels and mostly kept it still and worked the highway image around it. Conceptually, the images relate because the girl's head is, literally, in the clouds. She is dreaming of traveling, as represented by the road. The viewer can't see where the road is leading, showing how she might not know where she wants to go, but she knows she wants to go somewhere. The viewer can tell she might be dreaming or imagining traveling because her head is in the clouds, showing how she is happy and thinking of something that makes her happy -- like traveling. However, her eyes are open and her face is somewhat grim. This could express how she has "awoken" from her dream of traveling and is slowly realizing that she hasn't left yet and that it was all just a dream. Overall, the concept that these images and this double exposure convey is that a person is longing and dreaming of adventure and life and what lies ahead. However, these images and dreams can be quickly slashed by reality, as people wake up form their dreams.