Friday, September 12, 2014

Kendel Seigler Recipe 1: B&W/Mystery

Phone: iPhone 5s
App used: Fotor

To create this photo, I used the natural light coming in from the blinds on a window. I took this photo when the sun was positioned perfectly to shine through. This was taken as a profile shot of my face, very closely to the blinds so the lines shone on my face. Since I couldn't see myself when I was taking this, I had to crop this photo so you couldn't see the window/blinds. If you could see the blinds, that would obviously take away from the mystery of the photo. I cropped it using the 'edit' feature in my phone's camera roll. I then used the Fotor app to convert this into black and white. This app is great because it creates really rich grayscale photos and has different B&W options depending upon the intensity you want, etc.

Apps used: Fotor, GorillaCam

My kitchen has a partition that blocks off the stairs and it is made out of thick glass blocks that have different patterns on them. I positioned my camera on one side of the glass and myself on the other so my face would be distorted by the pattern. I did this using the GorillaCam app because it allows you to put your camera on a timer. I then used the Fotor app to convert this into black and white. To create the effect of my face being multiplied, I had to stand quite far away from the glass, because if you get too close, your face fills up the block and it just looks a bit blurry.


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