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it’s a photo of plucked out computer keyboard keys.
monochrome factor – a series of photography studies of black and white objects September 28, 2009
Posted by dilutedwater in photography, scribbles.Tags: black, box, computer, cpu, guitar, nafa, piano, racket, shoe, switch, television, telly, tennis, tv, wall, white
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that’s a really long title. but anyway that is the title of the series featured below, of everyday objects around my house.
title: piano
mr piano (yes ‘mr’, not ‘my’). who is older than me by more than 10 years. i like the straight lines, because it’s really clean-cut and just plain shiny.
title: bag
my brother’s actually. not mine. i like the way it occupies a quarter of the space. with the internet line leading out of the frame, giving a sense of continuity. i think it’s worth mentioning here that the wall is not white. it’s actually some apple green or something. off-white.
title: tv
the telly! it’s one of those HD TVs. i don’t know why but the way the different patterns occupy a section of the space is really alluring. the solid black of the screen is like an inverted base, creating heaviness at the top. the grey dotted area and the white/light blue stripes juxtaposed highlight each other’s patterns (: oh did i mention i like the reflection on the pedestal?
title: thirds
it’s my (dad’s) guitar and tennis racket. it’s set in this (rectangular) recess in the wall, each resting on opposite lengths. i think the lighting in my room is really poor /:
title: buttons
okay so it’s not really buttons. more like switches. it’s the air con remote, i-don’t-know-what-even-though-i’m-a-physics-student, and the light switch. again, poor lighting. should’ve been white, but turned out yellowish. i can’t help liking angular things /: they make a composition really stable.
title: shoebox
my mom’s. she has tons of shoeboxes stacked everywhere. i feel the line green stripe leads one to focus on the bottom half, though the boxes are actually occupying (nearly) equal thirds. for some reason i also like compositions with heavy colours bordering the top (like the tv photo).
title: shoebox
shoeboxes again. they are so versatile, and come in such a variety of colours. this time i left an upside-down ‘L’ of white, so the boxes look like steps, and the composition is not so flat (like above). i think it’s worth mentioning that the middle box is my graces shoe (the silver ones).
i would have preferred if the asics box was plain, like the top 2, so there’s uniformity /: but i also like the way it breaks the monotony of the swatches of grey.
title: computer
it’s not working anymore D: which is why i’m using a laptop at home. anyway i like how the corners and slanted lines lead into the white space, only to be countered by the shadows (from the piano).
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i didn’t use photoshop or any editing software. just uploaded them. and took them within 10 minutes last night/this morning before i went to bed. i know i don’t have any sense for photographic beauty (unlike wandong), but i like having stable, solid compositions. like the photo which i took for my nafa photo assignment of “hidden”.
this one had a nice composition, because the lines of the stairs give continuation and balance to the photo. and the textures are interesting, rough with smooth. pebbly with drippy.
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i feel this is a good practice to see beauty in everyday objects, and train myself how to compose a picture so it is stable. though it wasn’t really a challenge (because i took angular things), i thought i was fun. i think i shall do this again, when i have time (:
NAFA random June 10, 2009
Posted by dilutedwater in artworks-digital, artworks-traditional, photography.Tags: acrylic, camera, canvas, chocolate, drawing, earphone, handphone, ink, key, mouse, nafa, painting, paper, pencil, piano, plant, rock, stone, UFO, wall, wire
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nafa again! yunxin says it helps to fill up posts and i agree.
some weird dried flower/spice thing. we did it as a drawing practise.
pen and ink. was supposed to be the shape of a ferro rocher (sp?) but turned out more like a UFO. includes pencils, piano, mouse, handphone, camera, earphones, keys and wires. can you find them?
acrylic on canvas. it was a photoshop assignment turned painting assignment. sounds familiar? the three photos are below.
i took the plant.
took the wall.
took the whole thing (:
all the pictures were edited. especially the gravelish flooring. the hue and saturation thing.
anyway here’s a close-up of the stones, which took me ages to paint. and my teacher says it looks like watercolour. and she told me to put a signature and in the end i was the only one with a signature! D:
sypa ’08 January 17, 2009
Posted by dilutedwater in artworks-digital, photography.Tags: competition, sypa
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i entered the singapore young photographer award in 2008. the stuff in brackets is what i think (hence the question marks) i titled it for submission.
the photographs are:
1. blurground (greypinkgray?)
orchids with blurred flats in the background.
2. cd (?)
a moving cd taken with slow shutter speed.
3. fishtank (red angel?)
my fishtank (when i still had angelfish) taken when i got home at 2000+ and there were no lights on except for the tank light.
4. glowingbuilding (royale blue?)
our dear school. taken very, very early in the morning. like at 0630 or something.
5. redsky (sunset?!)
as the title suggests.
6. vendingmachine (midnight vending?)
all photos have not been photoshopped to change the composition. only the colour thingum. contrast? i forgot. i only vaguely remember something about saturation.
the camera i used was the one borrowed from the school. the really big one. [insert model number]
most of these are accidental and random shots. then i found them to be nice and took more. i had time to take photos to enter the competition because i finished the black and white assignment ahead of other people. xinhui and jessica also participated. in reality, i think theirs are better!
i didn’t win anything though D:
we had fun on the day of submission frantically mounting and titling our entries.
