Friday, 9 January 2015

So, What Next?

My fourth and final piece will be Scotophobia, the fear of darkness.
I have chosen this fear because I feel it will round up and string up nicely my photo series.
I have come across an artist on Flickr named Alyssa Oliver. Unfortunately, I have no personal information for this artist as she hasn't posted anything on Flickr apart from her photos.
Click here for Oliver's Flickr profile.

The image that has inspired me is named Scotophobia, by Alyssa Oliver.
Scotophobia

The idea I have had is actually quite similar to this one, however mine will be a self-portrait and I will not have any hands surrounding me. 
In my image, I will be sat in a dark space (perhaps a studio, or maybe at home) and I will be holding up a candle, or some source of light which won't light up the whole area.

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Developing My Final Pieces

In order to make my current final pieces better, I decided to add the definitions to all the phobias on the images. I did this by looking up the definition and phonetic spellings of all the phobias I have done so far.
Here are the images:



                   
This proved more difficult than I had originally anticipated, because when I copied and pasted the text onto the image in Photoshop, the software didn't recognise most of the phonetic symbols, and so it came up with boxes where the letters were meant to be. What I then had to do, was add the image into Pages, past the text, and then screenshot the image. 
My only concern with this method is that the screenshot will lower the resolution of my images and when it comes to printing, they will look unfocused and/or pixelated. If this is the case, I will have to re-do the images at home on a simple programme like Windows' Paint.