Final Piece Development - Next Steps

I stuck the little stickers on my model to represent her thinking she's covered in things that can contaminate others. The dots aren't spreading anywhere other than on her because in her mind it's her who is the host to all of these 'germs'.

I edited the image to make the edges darker so the center seemed brighter, highlighted and focused. I make the dots brighter and the face duller so they stood out and resembled the bright colours of the microbes that I've looked at earlier on in the project. I don't like the models sleeve being on the image, it gives the left side a large dark and unnecessary area so when I re-take this image I'll ask the model to take her jacket off so her arm is uncovered, I will then stick more dots on her so that area is covered with something other than bare skin. When re-taking the image I will make sure I stay more still to limit blurring, as well as asking the model to yet again stay as still as possible. I want the model to look more distressed and worried so I'll ask her to clench her wrists and squint her eyes are hard as possible. 

I edited the image to make it the model look grainy, I wanted it to look as though she was 'damaged' in the way that her brain isn't functioning the same as someone who perhaps doesn't have OCD. When you see a grainy image, it looks old and damaged so that is the look I was going for. I will crop it better and edit the light and contrast later but as for the content I'm happy. I do however think this photo loosk unprofessional and amateur which is probably due to the quality and the coloured dots, they make the photo look childish and thrown together, I struggle to see how else I could portray the model covered in the dots without it looking this way however. I asked my brother and my dad what they thought and none of them liked this photo, my brother said the quality wasn't good enough and my dad agreed with me by saying it looks amateur. I'm going to look through my library and pick another image to use.

I've played around with different Photoshop techniques and although they look interesting they're not professional or relevant to what I want my final piece to portray. I thing the negative image works slightly better than the two other but still not enough to follow this idea through. The negative image makes the small coloured dots seem like actual microbes because it looks as though a light is being shined upon the model to highlight the microbes, the light is the negative effect.

I chose a different image to take to the end to be my final piece, it's the one shown above. I chose this image because it's cropped better. I will manipulate the image until it reaches a desired effect of which I'd be confident in displaying along side my other 3 images which I'm still yet to create. 

I've decided to abandonne the image shown above because it isn't as strong as the other 3 due to the overlapping technique I did using Photoshop and how there are no interactive elements working between the model and the contaminatin OCD theme of 'Bugs and concerns over bug related contamination  (which is different from phobias related to insects)'. The other three images had the model interacting with a visual representative of the theme they were being shown to be suffering from for example one was covered in colourful stickers representing germs, one had bubbles, soap and water on him showing how he feels the need to always be clean and the other had paint in substitute for the vast spread of microbes existant to every aspect to daily life.