For this assignment, I chose it to be a little bit of a continuation of the theme from the previous assignment. This time, I chose to visit the park in my local neighborhood. I took 5 photos which I digitally altered for this assignment, capturing the lack of people hanging around the park. The playgrounds and basketball court are both closed so I chose to use black and white to reflect on the emptiness of the place. The weather was really nice outside, which led to some really strong natural light. I also think that black and white emphasizes the bleakness of the COVID 19 situation and I combined this with the natural lighting from the heavy sunlight to create this sense of emptiness from the lack of people, cars, etc in the park. For the photo with the sign, I made the entire photo black and white except for the red text on the sign which I increased the saturation of. Red is a very distinct color and signifies the urgency of the issue. For the rest of the photo, I chose to take advantage of the strong sunlight to create a bleak photo. We usually associate the sun with joy, happiness and fullness, however, these things are not present in these images. A park with a lack of people is a boring and dull place and the sunlight emphasizes that heavily.
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