End of Year Artist Statement

   What I love about these four pictures is how different they are. The first photo is me with sfx makeup on my face, I tried to get the lighting just right so it gave off that sort of "help me!" vibe. Sure it's strange and probably unsettling to some people, but it's what makes the picture interesting. In the second picture, the lighting is a little lighter, but it still has that serious vibe to it. However as you can see in the third photo everything is so much brighter and happier feeling. Or at least I think so. But then it goes back to a gloomy feel in the fourth picture. Everything about them is different. Some have deeper meanings, some don't.
   But something they do have in common, is composition! The first and third use rule of thirds, but the picture of the donut uses color and simplicity more than the first photo. The donut picture also uses a lot of texture in the frosting and the actually pastry part. And the first photo uses avoiding distractions. Sure you could say the fourth photo is rule of thirds -- which would work as well -- but I like to interpret it as balance, or don't center. This is because it doesn't exactly fit the criteria of rule of thirds. However the second photo is most certainly not rule of thirds or don't center, I would label it as close and far. The foreground being the leaves and vine, and the background being the fence and zip-tie holding the vine onto the fence.
   All in all, I believe I did well on these photos. However in the donut picture, I could've tried to focus on more of the donut rather than just one spot. But I loved the way I framed these photos and how they turned out. The elements I used really helped the picture look better and helped prove my photography skills. And it really made a statement about my voice as an artist, I'm an artist of two sides. Sometimes I like to take dark and sad themed pictures, other times I'll want to take pictures of bright flowers and happier things. For some of my pictures, people would ask what my influence was, and I simply tell them that I am my own influence. I create whatever comes to mind. Sure, I'll see something and I'll get inspired and want to take a picture of it, but it's always from different sources. I never have one singular inspiration. But it's what makes me original.