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Emily Wei Diptych Project ‘Blurred’

The relationship between my two images for the diptych is the blur for both the images but with different lighting and texture. The top one is brighter and more saturated but the objects themselves are blurry. Meanwhile, the bottom one has crisp lines for the objects but the image as a whole is cooler and grainier, making it blurred in a different way. The top image also gives an overall warm tone while the bottom one is cool and there is one stripe of highlight.

While staging the piece, I was wondering what would make it look aesthetically pleasing. When planning out my initial staging, I just made this drink and the color gradient looked really nice. I also liked the water droplets on the outside and thought it would make for a great piece to photograph. While photographing, I used a tripod so my main point was changing the aperture and shutter speed of the camera to get different lighting and focus on the objects. I purposely set the camera to a slow shutter speed and shook the camera to get the blurred effect, which I think came out nicely.

For the part 2 image, the white light in the middle was created by flashing a flashlight on the dim settings, which is actually a light flashing on and off. It created a cool center highlight portion in the image, so I decided to use that image and edited the exposure so that the highlighted portion would stand out more while the negative parts were made darker. I also overlaid a slight red color over the drinks and made the tones cooler to match the piece. Lastly, I used the lasso tool to create “shadows” on the bottom to match the shadows in the first image, except I kind of wanted an opposite effect, so I made the “shadow” out of light instead.

If I had more time, I would have wanted to get rid of the tripod and try more close ups and random zooms to see what perspective of pictures I could get. I would also want to try more advanced photoshop techniques, as I’m not so familiar with photoshop and in the past only used Procreate to lasso out portions of images.