I have finished taking my final images for my degree show I think these ones work the best out of all the images I have taken over the degree show build up period. I have really tried to think about what I want to achieve through these images and what I want them to achieve.
For me they sum up so much for what I wanted to accomplish from my final degree piece. It symbolises to me that struggle that I face every morning then I wake up and look at myself in the mirror. That look of what I am going to do with this!? It is something rather hard for to face and something I have felt is always a difficult subject for me. Which is what I have always wanted to achieve for my final piece, it was always meant to be about me breaking my safety barrier and trying to really push myself out of my comfort zone. I think I have achieved that for this image.
I have spent a lot of time on these images it took me a long time to take them as I wanted them to represent exactly what I wanted it to. In some of the images I was looking the wrong way or not making the right face I wanted myself to be making. I have also spent a lot of time editing these images on Photoshop so the final image was really clear and perfect when it got printed. I have edited the background so it was not blurry and I removed the shadow from under my chin so it looked better. Sadly I couldn’t remove the shadow from the back of my head as part of it was in my hair and it was to difficult to remove it from there and you could see where I had tried to cut it out as it made some parts of my hair blunt and you could notice it much more than the shadow, however I finally finished it and I am very happy with it.
