I wanted my images to depict the feeling of being trapped. I feel like so often we feel trapped within our own minds, but I want to externalize that feeling and put it in a realistic setting.

I only had one proposal for this project and that was to have a person trapped and for me to be reaching in and pulling them out of it. Initially I thought this would be a cool concept representing freedom, but in the end, it turned out that you cannot always pull someone out when they are trapped, and I realized that as I tried to take those photos.

I used a projector as my technical support because it allowed me to transport my subject to be trapped anywhere.

This shoot was personal to me. I went to a residential treatment centre next to the Catalina Foothills and I wanted to take pictures that represented why I was there as well as a couple photos showing what I saw and my recovery journey. Evenings were always my favourite times because it made the mountains feel painted and it was soothing to see and I wanted to incorporate that into my shots. I was there for a reason and I wanted to share that with everyone with my project.

I want to do a project in which I have a projection of a hospital with a person standing in there. I want to do it in my home and have my hand in frame as if pulling them out of it

In my project, I wanted to highlight the use of mobility aids in everyday life as a college student. Many of our students have a need for mobility aids, but we tend to pass them over as we go about our lives. I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention how they are used for those students and show them being used in action. In my photos, I have students using a variety of mobility aids including wheelchairs, canes, and prosthetics. Each of these students require these to function and move about campus, and I want to stop ignoring these aids and bring them into the light.

For this series, I would like to take a picture with this set of mountains in the background of every shot. I would be taking pictures of nature while having a consistent view of the same mountains from all different sides. I would want to take this at different times of the day which would affect the aperture and shutter speeds.

For this series, I would like to do it on the reflection of water. I feel like water gives a calm, peaceful feeling and it is such a vital part of our lives. I would once again decrease the aperture so that it would have a more shadowy effect. I want a significant portion of the water to be blue, but I would be taking these pictures at different times of day to see how that would affecting the feeling and the looks of the shadows.

I would like this series to be with silhouettes of landscapes. I want half of it to be the evening sky, so we get a gradient of color and the other half to be the silhouette. I also want to include something manmade in each shot (ie phone pole, cell tower) to show the impact we have left on the environment around us. I want the photo to be darker so that there is more contrast between the light and dark. I will be decreasing the aperture and slightly increasing the shutter speed.

This series of photographs will be of puppies’ paws. The background will always be sky. It probably has to be a 4:3 aspect ratio so the focus on the paw is more clear. I upped the brightness, contrast, brilliance, and exposure to make the pads of the paw more clear rather than just blending in with the fur and the background.

For this series, I want to convey that all creatures are similar yet different. It is like taking a series on fingerprints, but this highlights more how the differences between individuals is a common theme among all species. I want the series to be the exact same in all regards other than the paw pad to highlight how similar a creature can be but still have distinct differences.

The main focus of each shot will be the emergency posts located around campus. I think this could make a good project because it incorporates lots of lines. There is the line between the cement and the grass leading to the post, and then there are the parallel lines of the trees. After taking this photo, I realised I should probably make the photograph longer lengthwise rather than widthwise, but I was not sure how to approach that without diminishing the focus on the post. I like the natural colouring for this photo because the brightness of the colours are louder than if it was edited which pulls your attention as is intended for the pole to do.

I think for this series, I just want to convey that there are certain ways to emphasise an object and really point out what those ways are. I think the natural nature of the image will highlight the importance of standing out within our world rather than having to be drawn out through other methods. I want to use line to draw the observers’ eyes to the centre post to show that your eyes can be drawn to help if you let them.

Also, I do not know how to rotate an image on the blog to be upright because the image is upright in my photos.

Within the images, the main focus will be a mobility aid along with the individual who uses it. They will be centred within the photograph, though in the proposal, they are slightly to the right because there was a car in the way of it being centred and I was not sure whether to include that to get a centred photo or whether that would disrupt the continuity between photos. In the images, they will be taken in front of Old Main to have a cohesive background. But I also do not know if Old Main would draw the attention away from the main focal point. I did not download Adobe Photoshop for the initial proposal, but I went with a warm filter because it decreased the brightness of the grass and the building. The only problem I am having is that the sky is incredibly bright.

I want to convey the importance of diversity and accessibility. All throughout campus, there are different people with all different kinds of needs and I think that those means need to be highlighted rather than ignored or pushed aside. I think this project could help convey that because, though the project is going to have a similar basis for all the images, due to the different types of mobility aids, the images will be diverse in nature. I want all the images to be similarly framed and balanced so it shows how the world may look similar but what we need within it is different.