3 STAR Visual Assignment #2: “DEFAMILIARIZE”

For this assignment i took my creativity to another level, I used saturation, lighting, contrast, and even effects from both pixlr and my photo-bucket account to make these ten objects look totally abstract ad unfamiliar. The ten objects that I chose below are Aunt Jemima’s Syrup, Red Devil Hot Sauce, Hand Sanitizer, Nyquil, Aunt Jemima’s Pancake Mix Box, Dawn Anti-Bacterial Dishwasher Soap, Onions in a basket, A loaf of Bread, Parmesan Cheese, and Jif Peanut Butter. After setting the contrasts and  lighting in different versions that people aren’t use to seeing i decided to form all of the pictures int a collage using the website mycollage.com. I chose to do this so that my audience could actually see all of the pictures at once and take closer looks at each picture once they click it. I chose to set the background yellow because if you change it to a darker background it would take away the effects and lighting’s on the pictures. This process was very fun i enjoyed fooling around with the lighting effects and tools to make these objects look unreal and deformed. “CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO GET A CLOSER LOOK”!

Mission: Defamiliarize

Make a set of ten photos which take something familiar to you–a town, building, object, etc.–and defamiliarize it, make it seem foreign. Use a mix of extreme closeups, weird lighting, foreground/background focusing and odd angles and other effects to make something that you know very well seem like something you’ve never seen before, something spooky and/or luminous and/or magical.

See an example at http://www.andessurvivor.com/2012/01/23/mission-defamiliarize/