Final Project: Elora Kelsh

 My original idea for this final project was to explore different lighting conditions, but it eventually transformed into focusing on interior spaces because I found those spaces most intriguing in photograph. Lighting is still very much important in my final pictures, but each photo has an even larger emphasis on straight lines leading in all sorts of directions, which I meticulously edited to be sure were all straight. I wasn't very experienced in editing before, but I feel that I significantly improved my editing skills over the course of this class and was best able to display so in this project.

I've always been very interested in architecture photography, particularly interior, and am glad I that I got the opportunity to explore it for myself. I focused on finding places that one might not think much of in passing, but become beautiful when composed into a photograph. Most of these compositions consist of empty places and empty chairs, which is a  subject I've always found intriguing; a room full of chairs, and yet nobody sitting in any of them creates an uncanny feeling of loneliness. I tried to capture that feeling of loneliness in all the pictures, even in the two that include a figure. My favorite photographs overall are probably my black and white empty chair large room one, because I love the reflections that happen and how vast and empty the room looks, and the brick one with red chairs, because of the variety of red hues and the near perfect symmetry that is broken only by the background.

Formal elements that I was inspired by were framing and detail. I printed each on 8.5x11 Luster paper and kept the original ratio, not blowing it up to cover the whole page as to not loose the cinematic feeing of the photos; this wasn't intentional at first, but looking at them now I notice that they do look like establishing shots for movies.Overall I'm very satisfied with how all my photos turned out and plan to continue photographing in the future.