Connecting Essay 5

The first image is one that I found from the internet when looking at ways I could show reflection in my photography. I bought a range of different ideas I had together and found images after that were similar to mine. Selective colour in the eye stands out to me as the rest of the image is in black and white. They have brightened the outside of the eye, while the top corner is nearly in complete darkness. This draws the audiences attention to the pupil of the eye. The reflection in the pupil has been edited so that ita ppears as though there is a person crawling inside and trying to escape. This may convey many different meanings and emotions to the audience. Each viewer may interpret the inside of the eye differently, and leads them to ask there own questions as to what it means. The way that they have performed it makes it appear as if they are inside the eye and are pressed against it trying to escape. There is a lot of tone and texture in the image, although it is also clear that the other parts of the eye have been softened so that the pupil is the main focus. Although everything is still in focus, the hairs of the eyelashes stand out. The colour in the pupil is also not very strong, conforming to the dark emotions that are emitted from the image.

Internet Image

In my own image, I merged two different pictures together on photoshop. I took one image from my light shoot, in which the sun is seen shining through the trees. Then, when in the studio I came up with the idea of putting different scenes into pupils of peoples eyes. Initially, it took along time until I got the right image as many didn't look realistic and took the effect of the eye away. In the below image, I think it stands out to me as the sun inside the eye shines through directly in the centre, reenacting a pupil. I chose not to put the rest of the image in black and white as although I feel it would make the pupil stand out, I like the use of colour as I am not trying to convey a negative emotion. The image would have a different feeling should it be in black and white, however, I wish I did put one image in black and white to see how they contrasted from one another. I also didn't use soft focus in my image, I felt like the eye was beautiful and therefore it wouldn't have been as sharp should it have been in soft focus. I chose to zoom in and make the eye close up, from straight on, as it meant that it was looking directly into the audience who was looking at it. 

Own Image 

In both the internet image and my image, the main connection is the theme explored. I came up with this idea with no inspiration from the internet, I took two different ideas and placed them together. Both of my image and the internet image also contrast in different ways. The internet image has kept its colour in the eye, placing the hands over the top and blurring out the background. I chose not to do this, but to get rid of all the colour in the eye and replace it with the setting. The use of placing the image in black and white means that there is a deeper tone and makes the image suit the hand crawling outside of the eye. If the image was in colour, it would not have made the pupil of the eye stand out as much. There is a selective colour in the Internet image, to enhance it. However, I didn't choose to do this in my image and now looking at it, I wish I edited it so that the pupil stood out more as a result of this.