If I can produce a picture that evidently expresses the connection I felt when taking the picture I consider it a success. In this assignment, I had a deep connection with the people in my pictures, making it easier for me to photograph them and for them to give me that same connection back through their body language and eyes. After the first assignment I’ve found that I’m very drawn to photographing people, because of this powerful connection that comes through in my pictures, making it that much more magical for me and for my viewers. In Sally Mann’s photographs of her children and husband, this same enchanting connection she had with them came through in her pictures. She even stated, “The things that are close to you are the things you photograph the best.”
My final five pictures are, Love Me Forever, Inked with Desire, Till Death Due Us Part, Heal My Heart, and Battle Wound Beauty. In each one I wanted to capture the rugged feeling of a man and the supple feeling of a woman. In the beginning I went the more obvious route and photographed a couple I’m close to. The outcome of this was my first two shots Love Me Forever, and Inked with Desire. I then tried taking more abstract shots, with objects I believe represent male and female. In my head I saw female objects full of beauty, sensuality, and tenderness and male objects as more rough, intense and powerful. I loved being able to use my imagination and creativity for this assignment as well as being able to explore this thrilling feeling I experience with each click of the shutter and the anticipation of wanting to know how each shot will come out in the darkroom.
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