Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

I did some experimenting with photoshop and mirrors here to get a picture for Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. I took a variety of pictures of myself in the mirror. These two were my favorite so I melded them together in photoshop. Tweedle Dee and Teedle Dum are identical twins who Alice asks for directions in the story. They both disagree and tell her to go different directions. That is why both images of me are making different faces and pointing opposite directions. Do you like the clored images better than the normal image. Since the charecters are crazy, I wanted to give them an abstract color so they stand out and look different. I think I like the purple and green colors in the bottom photos the best.

The Cheshire Cat and Singing Flowers

The Cheshire Cat's smile was one of my favorite elements in the Alice In Wonderland story. He was a cunning and creepy character. I took many pictures of my cats and a lot of different people's mouths, trying to find the right match up for a Cheshire Cat. I chose this photo of my cat because his eyes and facial expression are creepy and stand out. Because he is licking his lips too, it adds a bit of humor. For the mouth photo, I boosted the contrast a lot and changed the hue to create the extreme purple color which is signature to the Cheshire Cat. The teeth look very white, and I tilted the photo so it wasn't straight on and lied more angled with the cat.

In Wonderland, the flowers are known to sing. I wanted to capture the essence of music with a flower in this photo. I used sheet music as my background photo but I also would like to try a variety of musical backgrounds, maybe an instrument or a musician singing would also look good with the flower. I like this flower picture because it turned out really clear, the color is vibrant, and the water droplets could be paint, as in "painting the roses red".

I would like to work more with overlaying photos. I think because the book Alice In Wonderland is so crazy, it will be good to have a variety of photo types in my final concentration. I would like my final concentration series to have diptychs, photo stories, overlaid photos, and normal photos. So far, diptychs and overlapping photos have been my favorite to work with. The overlapping photos were also the most difficult to edit, until they look appropriate and unified. It was very hard for me to find good photos that lined up well together. I had to take many photos and do a lot of editing to get these pictures to turn out well with the story.

Final Concentration Photos

"It's always tea time," the Mad Hatter Says in Alice In Wonderland. He is another one of my favorite book characters. I tried to depict him as bit insane and absolutely stoked to have tea. I tilted the camera when taking the photo to make everything seem a bit more topsy-turvy. It turned out well with a nice foreground of the tea cup and kettle, and a background of the Hatter. 

This a picture of Humpty Dumpty and Alice. Humpty Dumpty's character is actually more from the book Through the Looking-glass, but it's all part of the same story. Humpty Dumpty is an egg, teetering on the edge of a high wall. I used a different point of view when taking this picture by taking it from above to really emphasize him being on the edge of the wall. I'd like to take some quotations form the books and place them below the pictures for my final concentration. That way I can get more detail about each character across to viewers. 

"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" is a quotation from the White Rabbit in Alice In Wonderland. The white rabbit is the catalyst that starts Alice off on her amazing adventure. I will probably have this be my first picture in the series and put the others in order by scene. The stop watch is the main object of the rabbit's that first intrigues Alice. I used rule of thirds in this picture and lighting to get the silhouette of the rabbit right. By boosting the contrast the shadow really stands out. 

This photo is another take on the Queen of Hearts. I used repetition, contrast between red and white, and lighting to place emphasis on the Queen.

Final Concentration-First Five

This is a series of Alice. The first photo is her running away into the words. It's meant to be dreamlike as she is running away from reality. The second photo reveals that when she reaches the forest she is not alone. The pale, clawed hand is meant to be the Queen of hearts lurking and following Alice through the woods. The third picture depicts Alice's fear as she gets lost in the forest. The tree branches are meant to make her look trapped.

This is supposed to show the fight between the black and white chess pieces. Leading the black pieces is the dark Queen. I used lighting to make the black set look more fearsome and dangerous. The White set on the other side is much more organized, strategic, and innocent or cheerful looking.

Once more, here is the glass vile that Alice drinks to make her smaller. This is the edited version of the photo with some color boost.

Here is my diptych of the Queen of hearts. The left picture is to make her look creepy and feel like she is always watching you, from every angle. The right picture is queen looking down cheerfully and sadistically on a bunch of headless barbies. This shows how she rules over her minions with a cruel, iron-first, and it expresses her psycotic mindset.

This is a picture I took a couple months ago, when roses were still in bloom. I edited the color a bit and worked with the red and white to really emphasize "painting the roses red", which was an important scene in Alice In Wonderland.

The Queen of Hearts

This is sequence of photos I took to capture the essence of the Queen of Hearts character in Alice in Wonderland. These were my favorite photos of the ones I took. I tried to make the color red stand out, because it symbolizes the queen and her dangerously demented spirit. The Queen of Hearts is an intense character who's a bit insane and blood thirsty. Her famous line "Off with their heads!" gave me the inspiration to add headless barbies to the photo series. Comment on what photo you like best. I love getting feedback. I am thinking of trying to put two or three of the photos together, perhaps in a photo story or diptych, I'm just not sure which photos to use yet. I used the Rule of thirds in many of the photos. I also used mostly incandescent lighting, except the fourth photo has a different light source, which is why her skin appears so pale, but I think I prefer the warm light source. In photo shop, I increased the saturation and contrast in the pictures to make the color red and the shadows, especially around her eyes, appear significant.