I intended to make the viewer feel as if they were looking out at a scene through a window in a dark room. This is why I chose to use black paper for my pages. The title of my book, "What I Saw" is supposed to be ironic; all my photos are photoshop manipulations. What my title really means is: "what I didn't see".
All my pictures are taken outside and near the coast. The breezy air gives my photos a sense of movement in the composition and the clear, bright light gives my images a similar color scheme and contrast. In all my images, I used natural textures as overlays to give the impression that the scene existed in more than one dimension. For example, in my photo of a girl twirling on a patio overlooking the ocean, I did an overlay of water of the patio so it looks like the water on the horizon continued over the patio and she was dancing on water.
Other students who do this project should be very purposeful in how they construct their pictures. They should be very deliberate in what elements they include in their images. If they do this, the project should be very rewarding.










