iPhotoing Part 2: What story are you trying to tell?

Like I said briefly at the end of my last post...I strongly believe everyone is inspired by different time periods and seasons when they are editing their photos. 

iPhoto has a series of in-built editing functions that make it easy to choose the mood, time period or season you want to use to "inspire" your photo and change the memory of the event you are representing. 

For the image above - I simply applied some "Antique" and "Fade Colour" effects and suddenly it looks like I am presenting New York in a film noir context.

Now thinking about it...this choice of editing in my photo, reflects my deep interest in the culture of New York from that 1940s/1950s time period, and how I am attempting to represent that through this photo as a homage to Hollywood films of the time. The history of this photo has been re-written to show how I would have loved to experience the region in a different context. 

So the way photos are edited isn't simply for the purposes of looking more GLAMOUROUS or POLISHED, it reflects people's deeper cultural interests.  

So if you weren't thinking it already, yes I was a little inspired by this famous scene in An Affair To Remember. =P

Found this here, good to know someone else still loves the classics.

Okay so maybe what I was thinking with this second edit using the "Adjust" tool was that I just didn't want people to know how cold and cloudy it was...

It's natural that sometimes image edits can be for vanity purposes, but normally there's a deeper cultural message behind it. 

Paul 

iPhoto-ing Part 1

iPhoto pretty much changed my life...as cheesy as that sounds when it graced my photos with its presence in 2010, as I purchased my first Macbook and crossed over into "Apple lover" territory.

iPhoto is a really simple but special application because it changes the memory of past events, you can make a scene or a moment in time have any mood you would like it to. 

iPhoto is therefore a way of moving past your every day life and context! 

You can transcend the limitations of today, to present a different time period or season. I will show you how through some examples in editing the following photo to create different moods, time periods, and seasons. 

This is the original copy of the photo that will compose the majority of this initial iPhoto journey, and was taken at the top of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, NY, in December 2011 on a freezing and misty winter's day.


And so the journey to re-writing history and memories begins, to make my travel experiences more glossy and exciting. 

The aim of my iPhoto journey is to help other young people understand that they can't always trust the photo they see on their respective social media website. 

Everyone is trying to deliberately tell a unique story through the photos they post. 

:) 

Paul