Up close and personal

For this assignment, we were supposed to convey a mood and/or visual representative presentation of a controversial or everyday problem, while shooting photos at different angles and depths, using the prompt "Up Close And Personal". I chose to convey the problem of being an outkast and feeling alone. I did this by placing a teenage couple (models: Derek and Jenny) on a bench, with another teenager (model: Anna) on the same bench, however farther apart, feeling as if they were a third wheel and sad. I tried to help further convey this idea by setting the couple in focused as if they "belonged/ fit in the society" so to speak, while having the solo teenager blurred, to show how they themselves as "outkast" feel blurred by society. My first print of this photo was really muddy, due to the tones being around the same tones of grey. To fix this I used a filter, and the photo came out a lot better, I believe, since you can see better contrasting tones in the photo. In conclusion I believe that I conveyed my idea well, and am happy with the way it turned out.