The Kitchen Table

This project was a little bit of a dozzy for me. My team and I didn’t get some photos in time, I was internally panicking, and etc. However, all was well at the end and the project was nice. Our job was to take pictures at a “kitchen table” and portray mood/emotions in certain pictures. We also had to expose the set by providing a photo of it in the middle of our school. We then had to add a vintage look to the photos by setting the pictures in black and white and create shadows. To do this, we had to go to Photoshop and make the photos black and white (obviously). Then, we used the marque tool to encompass the light hanging from the ceiling, and press “inverse” to focus on the top section. Next, we set “feather” to 200 to blend the shadow that would be put in the next step. Lastly, we go to “curve” and pullback the line as much as we’d like to give the top section a mesmerizing shadow. This project was inspired by two famous photographers, Justin Bettman (staged different sets in New York) and Carrie Mae Weems (black and white kitchen table photos that showed a glimpse of her life). If I had to choose a place to tell my family’s story, I would take pictures of places in Russia like Moscow or Veliky Novgorod. You would probably see photos of the nature and old buildings that symbolize how my family (specifically parents and grandparents)  lived long ago. I can’t wait to see what we’ll do next!                                                                                           -Marie Valouiski

Rest of my edited photos here.