In this project I took pictures of people and posed in pictures. In this project I had to pose like I was at my kitchen table, when I was actually in the schools entrance with a yellow painted background behind me. I posed by myself and with my friends, we did many odd and normal things! This project was a mixed replica of the works of the New York based photographer Justin Bettman and influential contemporary American artist Carrie Mae Weems. Justin Bettman creates sets on the streets of New York in the oddest places. Anyone can come and take a picture in these sets. For example, you might be sitting down to dinner in the middle of an intersection. We used Carrie Mae Weems’ Kitchen Table Project as inspiration to the table in the middle of all our pictures. I had to make the photos black&white and I had to make it so above the light was darker than underneath. In Photoshop I used Black&white to turn my photos from color to black&white. I then cropped my photo to make sure the light was in the center of the photo. After that, I used the ellipses tool to select under the light. I feathered the selected part of the image to 200 and then switched the selected area to the non selected area. I used curves to tamper with the fading from the light. Soon my photos looked as if the light was giving light to only below it. If I had to choose a place to tell my family’s story, I would choose our dining room. Every night we eat dinner together and talk to one another over food. (usually chicken) You would probably see us eating or playing a game. This project was very fun and I would definitely do it again! Below are a few of the images taken at the table!