Computer experiments

Smudge...

This photo is originally from my "friendship" shoot. The reason I chose to smudge the faces of my subjects was due to symbolism- teenagers are stereotyped together as a whole and I found that smudging the faces of them is quite effective in showing this; their identity is kept and its hard to tell who is who.

Threshold...

I find this experiment of this tool really interesting because its as if my subject has morphed into the graffiti- it is quite hard to tell where the graffiti ends and where my subject stands. This can be a symbolic use of editing because of creating a counter stereotype of youths don't care about anything; this photo implies that their art work of graffiti symbolises their thoughts and emotions.

Posterize...

I decided to edit these two photos in this way because I find it really interesting when looking at the counter stereotypes of youth/ the stereotypes of the subculture of "geeks/nerd" because I find this effect creates a magazine type effect to these images, implies they aren't really. This could be symbolic for the audience by suggesting because it counter stereotypes the media doesn't include it as much. The media only covers the stereotypes.

Layer Merge...