BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY AT SCHOOL

The imagination sees what it wants to see. Art can be found in anything in our lives everyday. If you look at the school, you may think it is a boring school, but sometimes you can find inspiration in the oddest of places. When you find your inspiration, you change the way it looks and can make it into something completely different.

THE CROSS - Since this is a Catholic school, I decided to add an element of our Christianity into this task. If you take a look of this picture, the first thing you see is Jesus on the cross, but what is so fascinating about this picture? It could actually be a picture taken from up high and the mountains formed this when you change the picture around.

For this picture, you could find inspiration in seeing Jesus on a cross, even if you are not religious, (hopefully no morbid ideas come to mind.) Religion can be a form of art. If you care a lot about it to the point where you can express your love about it, then it is a form of beauty, an art. Art doesn't have to be about something you HAVE to create, you can also appreciate it. Having an appreciation for something is an art.

I created this picture by well going into the chapel and taking a picture of the cross. Then once I got it up on Photo shop, I converted it into Black and white and changed the filter to Note paper, and changed the contrast and shadows on it.


THE CEILING - The element I wanted to show was art. The art room came to mind because well, it is an art room. Again, everyone has their own ideas and imagination and can get inspiration from anything, even another person. So, as you can see in this picture, anyone can have a good idea and make it work, even if it doesn't seem right to one person, it may make sense to a different person.

I had to change the picture to black and white and changed the filter to Note Paper, because I wanted it to match and go together with my picture above. THE CROSS. I had to cut some ceiling tiles and paste them onto blank tiles and areas with lights to make the picture more artsy. Sometimes, the whole ceiling doesn't have to be covered for you to be touched by the artwork. Once I put them over the blank areas, then I used feathering and deleted some parts around the picture so that it would fit in the area better and not look like I photo shopped it. Not all artwork has to look beautiful or pretty. As long as there is someone to acknowledge it, then it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is if you are happy with your work, and you can have at least one more person appreciate what you have done.

- Gorecki.