Tonight I've been experimenting with the tones of my images. Like before with the blonde girl image, I've gone onto photoshop and the easiest term to say would be that I 'played around with the saturation' etc. I wanted to use blue tones to move away from the Nan Goldin stereotypical work and create something slightly unique. I really love how the image has turned out, however It might be a tad too bright/ over exposed. I feel that this works with my other images of the same night though, so as an exhibition point of view it would work. These ideas aren't definite though, I just wanted to practice on photoshop, see what looks I could create - if I could create something different at all and also I wanted to experiment with my images.
I decided on black and white for this image also so that I could link my practice with previous photographs practices that I have been looking at, such as Larry Clarks, Tulsa images. Despite this I wanted to also create a twist of his work by using softer tones and a more 'vintage' faded out effect, rather than the dark toned images Clark was taking. I would say that the vintage black and white works with the images. The girls features are still focal and standing out, however by having a faded blur effect on the image, I feel it takes away the natural snapshot element i'm after and also it takes away some of the detail / distracts you from the rest of the image.
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