Idea Post -- Display Ideas part Deux

Here is a beautiful diagram of how I would like to present my final piece:

The hanging red/white things in the middle are my images. I want to have a light shining in the middle space. There will be curtains sectioning off the area from the rest of the room, however it won't be small like it was at mid-term, it will only serve to define a space so that the room that I present in (I anticipate room 305 ) will not distract from my work.  I actually got this idea from Ashleigh.  We were talking about how I feel there is no beginning or end to this particular work. She mentioned it being cyclical and what if I hang my images in a circle where there is no defined start or end and when the person enters the space they just go around and around. I like this idea of entrapment to go along with my work and having my audience being stuck in the endless cycle that I find myself stuck in on the day to day.  I think it would be a very effective way of showing my piece for this reason.

Idea Post -- Lighting Situation

the quiet of coursing thoughts, 2009

something to hold on to, 2009

 

a certain distaste, 2009

A note: These were not saved for web and reshoots are imminent! I just need to get my model back from Savannah.

Anyway. I'm pretty happy with how the images are taking shape and I'm working on how I want to continue to depict this series.  The first image posted is, I think, perfect in the way I want it to be. The second image needs a couple technical adjustments taken care of -- there is a glare on the photo in the cage which I think needs to be taken out, but I think I might like how it obscures the face. The problem though is it doesn't look intentional so I think ifI want the face obscured, I need to find another way to do it. With the third image, I'm pretty happy compositionally, but the lighting is unappealing to me. That is why I'm making this idea post, to post my idea on how to relight the image.

Here is a very sorry diagram of what I'd like my lighting to look like:

So what that is, would be a light with a snoot shooting across his eyes so that they are lit more than the rest of his face in a streak kind of  and then I would have a fill light (not pictured) making sure that everything else was illuminated as well. I talked to Shawnee about this since she understands light better than I can and I probably couldn't light my way out of a cave, at least not with any kind of intention. That's my idea for that image though.  I'm trying to convey the struggle that I felt while living with my step-dad and enduring the pain that went along with that. I think looking at my images so far, I'm happy with what I'm coming up with and I'm excited to continue shooting.