The final part of our first assignment (see both “the aperture” and “the focal lenght” -tasks) was to combine the things we had practised and make a use of those techniques to create a picture with atleast some amount of expressive force.
Being a fool for creepy images and horror movies, I wanted to create something of that sort, if only without too much time on hand. I already had a blossoming attachment to the little red traffic light (the focal lenght -task), so I knew I wanted to include it in the picture. I gave my red hoody to another mate Peter and set Jere kneeling in an uncomfortable position in the foreground while giving directions to the red one and finding a right position for camera (which in the end was really low, shooting upwards, to get all three objects in the same frame). Using wide aperture (f/5.6 with 1/10 shutter speed) I created a blurry background – quite a textbook trick in horror.
My only gripe is the position of my dear red light. I composed it a bit too left and it just doesn’t seem to have enough breathing space there. I adjusted the white balance of the picture afterwards and slightly altered the shadow levels too, to give it more colder and sinister look. As before, the final pic is the first one, and the unedited the latter.
