Photographic Truth

Nabrissa Alves

Photographic Truth Reflection

         The objective of this assignment was to create an accordion book consisting of six photos of an event from history or before the day the project was assigned. The event could have been a major one or one simply of a recent pop culture event. Each photo had to be related to the topic. The overall goal was to use Adobe Photoshop to put yourself into the picture – making the photo appear as true and original as possible. This reflects the title of the project: “Photographic Truth”. To create our books, first six pictures online to put ourselves into. We then began altering the photos.

         My book followed the requirements of the project. Each photo clearly related to the main theme. Most of the photos I found online were without color so I decided to make my entire book black and white. My main focus when choosing the pictures to alter was to choose ones with many people so I wouldn’t be easy to find and could make blending in easier. To add myself to the images, I tried to position in a way that was similar to everyone else’s in the photo, so I wouldn’t stand out. I often used the blur filter, brightness/contrast and texture tools to alter the look of me.

   The theme of my book is The Titanic. I knew originally that I wanted my theme to be in sequence order. I chose this event because I knew I could find images of the order in which this event happened. Because I didn’t really want to change the meaning of the images, my presence doesn’t change anything about the pictures. My focus was simply to add myself into it looking as true as possible.

        I really liked this assignment. I learned of a lot more tools of Photoshop that I didn’t know of in earlier projects. I found this project the easiest of our Photoshop assignments because I could use all the new tools I learned from those project into this one.