Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Wet Plate Collodion- Brooke Hockspiel


For my concept, I wanted to take a very urbanized shopping center in Charlotte and create a humorous piece by adding in carriages. I think it contrasts well, as shopping centers definitely did not exist back then and it's unique to see carriages in this kind of a setting. I created this by taking images of carriages from the Library of Congress and adding them to my original photo taken of a shopping center parking lot.

 

3 comments:

  1. I think your concept is really strong and you did a great job of merging the images together to look like one. It reminds me of the horse and carriage rides in NYC. The only thing I can think to change is to many add more blur in the distance and blow out the sky to look more white and flat.

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  2. I really like this piece. It’s funny and creative especially when you taking two different images and merged them together to form as one. The distress and burn feel on the image I feel like goes perfect with what you were tying to accomplish making this feel more natural. Only thing I would say needs to be fixed is the sharping on the images at least to make out a facial feature but otherwise I think this is great.

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  3. The concept is whimsical and thoughtful and comes across pretty well. I do think I would have modified the background buildings so that the contemporary structures were more apparent. Great work aligning the carriage with the parking space.

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