Complementary Color

"Flatiron"

ARTIST STATEMENT

This image was a long time coming. I've been getting home so late after school that it's dark out and I'm really not a fan of pictures inside because of the artificial light. Today we had a work period in photography, but since the school is entirely lit by ceiling lights, Ben and I went outside. He and I have been looking at this storage container for awhile wanting to do something with it so I decided to use it as one of my complementary colors image. I noticed I had on a green shirt so it worked out very well. Originally I wanted to hang my shirt from the storage container, but with it being as windy as it is, this was quite difficult. I ended up leaning a wooden post against it and threw my shirt over that. I really like how the picture turned out because the shirt would constantly move in the wind and looked really good against the container. I didn't think this picture needed a whole lot of editing so I turned the brightness of the red up and darkened the black lettering on the front. I think the contrast really works and these are very good colors for this project. It wasn't 100% on purpose, but I think the rule of thirds works very well in making this image more interesting. It would be boring if the shirt was centered and the way the design on the shirt is facing, it almost seems as though the shirt is staring off to the right side of the image which would not have looked as good if the shirt was centered. We have a lot of contrasting colors an interesting ones at that in our school, but those walls are too plain. The body work of the storage container breaks up the negative space on the right which helps the image stay interesting throughout. I'm not sure exactly what my draw is to them, but I'm a huge fan of the imperfections on the container that show in the left side of this photograph. They complement the black lettering on the shirt and take out that negative space. Some might think that it's too much for that corner of the image, but I like them. I enjoy finding all of these hidden gems once I look deeper into the photographs I capture.