Documentary Photos

While pregnant, my husband and I looked all over to find a house where we would be happy. We didn't notice the graffiti (or the gun shots) until we had lived in the house for a while. I chose to photograph some of the graffiti in our neighborhood because for a long time it was a huge issue to me (whether or not gang related, I have no idea). I am raising my children in this neighborhood and I get worried when I see a flood zone sign in front of a flood area that now reads "Blood zone". Is this a safe neighborhood to raise a family? I think it is safer than some neighborhoods. I should feel less safe than I do, but I have neighbors that are very active in looking out for each other. I used to feel more threatened by it all, but the graffiti has now, just become part of the neighborhood (and the gun shots...pretty rare).

Texture

The first element I chose to explore was texture.  My thoughts on texture were, how the texture could make the pear more interesting.  I went into the backyard and just took a ton of pictures with the pear with different textures around it.  Being quite limited in my resources, I used a chair, sand, and grass.  I am not sure how successful these images were, but I am do like the photograph of the pear in the grass.

COLOR:  The second element I chose to explore was the use of color.  I wanted to try to make the color of the pear and background appear brighter than it would if it were by itself.  I used pink, red (complimentary color) and yellow as background colors.  The pink and green combination was the most successful (color wise, although not compositionally).  The yellow and green combination was the least successful, the colors became muted. 



Perspective: Pear