The full Potential of the House

If only we were SMALL...

For my final project my goal was to create miniature scenes of skateboarders skating items found around the house. Kind of of what fufilling a fantasy of what I would do if i was small during the harsh Michigan winters. For all my photos the two most important elements are lighting and scale. I wanted to portray a sense of realism with light and shadow, but then ground it, by showing a very small object that was large in scale.

For this photo I really tried to challenge myself by having the board be separated from the skater. This was achieved by taking a wire and hanging both the skater and the board from the wire independent of one another. I also tried to incorporate a different sense of lighting for this image by adding a small l.e.d light. It really give the photo a "night time" feel that I enjoy. I incorporated shoes into the composition to achieve the element of scale, and because shoes are a very important and essential part of skateboarding.

[mini Steeze]

[miniSTEEZE]

Blog prompt 25

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Write a detailed description of your “motivations” for your final self-proposed project. Why are you interested in this subject? What do you want to convey? How do you want viewers to respond? Why are you inspired to make these images/this project? Do you want to evoke emotions in viewers? Shock viewers? Make them laugh? Make them think? Inform them? Reveal something about how you see the world? Reveal something about yourself, a person, a place, a feeling, a memory, a moment in time?

Skateboarding is a very huge part of my life and has been for quite sometime. Anytime I can implement it into a school assignment is a great privilege and i always try to take advantage of it.  I think there is a lot more to skateboarding then how it is portrayed by popular culture. Skateboarders are generally seen as punks, where I see them as incredibly athletic artists who use the urban landscape to create breath taking moments in photography and film. I want to capture and expose this beauty on a highly manipulable miniature scale.