Diptych Project – People Watching
Emma Blosser
The concept for this project was to explore the concept of “sonder” which is the concept explaining how everyone has a complex life that we as individuals might not initially realize. My goal for this project was to somehow express this realization with a comparison of the two images. The comparison shows the first initial glance you might have towards the everyday society and the edited picture shows the other side of the coin. It shows the various emotions and stages of life someone might be in just as they’re walking on the street through the use of colors, repetition, the varying sizes of the subjects.
The first part of my process was to find a place nearby that I knew would be somewhat populated in that I would be able to photograph people walking on the street or in passing. At first, it was turning out to be difficult to get a shot without being so obvious that I was taking a picture. My goal was for it to be more of candid shot so I ended up shooting from across the street to get a more observational shot.
Going into the editing process, I already had a vision of what I wanted the piece to somehow look and be composed. I originally started the piece out with greying out the whole picture so that the colors I would add later would be the focus. The next step would be the coloring of the subjects and repetition of some of them. The process for the digital editing section was proving to be difficult at first because of my lack of experience with the Photoshop App. But after some experimenting with the tools, I found the ones that would serve my purpose.
Overall, the conversation between the images, I believe, allows the audience to reflect on the everyday society they live in and dig deeper into the lives of others. If I had more time to work on this, I would like to explore more variety with the subjects in the picture or go to a more populate place to take a better quality picture that I can edit with more ease. With this being a picture I took on my phone, the editing process proved to be a little more difficult. But I believe this turned out the way I envisioned from the beginning.
