Photography- Shooting the truth : Assignment 5: Virtual essay

Life is come from many stories and my life was full of memories. There were many things are valuable to me but everyone value their things differently. Therefore I would like to use photos to introduce the five most valuable things in my life. Each picture has their definition and story behind it. However the picture was taken in Eugene Smith and Sebastiao Salgado Style, which has characteristic of interaction and visible

Since the photo style was in Eugene Smith and Sebastiao Salgado, therefore there were some similarities and differences. All the photos were chosen carefully and most of them were taken with the close distance, moreover they all went through the post production process. All the photos were pretty similar except Figure 4; it was taken when they were not even notice, therefore they did not have any eye contact but it still have some similar part which is the light spotting, emotionally engaged with the people and the contrast colors. At least the most important part of the photo was the stories behind them just like Eugene Smith's photos.

These pictures were the memories of my life; they were purposely captured for reasons. The post production process was done by Photoshop in order to have the light spot on the object I was focused on. The first picture was focused on my grandma and the medical equipment, therefore the post production was using the color contrast to have the main object in the bright part. Second picture was to show my family picture, therefore I used the same method to this picture I altered the light spotting on the people and made the rest in to darker color. Third picture was show the friendship and all the people in the photo were my junior high school friend and we all know each other over ten years therefore I wanted to have the reunion photo, also the gesture was eight and it was our class code therefore I had all the gesture and people on the photo. Fourth picture was taken when my friends was playing Chinese chess, I wanted to have the audiences to see they were thinking and it represent the intelligence therefore the chess and the face and the object were equally important to this picture. At least it was my best friend's weeding, the main target was bride than was the people behind her therefore the bride was in the centre of the brightness than a bit darker on the peoples to point out the importance of the picture.

The first picture was taken three years ago and it was in the morning and my grandma was lying on the hospital bed looking at me. As we can see the equipment my grandma was suffering from cancer, therefore the message is to take care of you own health don’t let someone else worry about you. Second photo was taken on my grandma's birthday and it was the only picture of our whole family, since my brother and I went abroad to study and we did not have chance to take a family picture in ten years. It was the first family picture in ten years and it was so fortuned we can have the whole family to celebrate my grandma's birthday. Therefore I want to tell the audiences the importance of family, family is the only one will always support you. There picture was taken last month and it was the reunion part and all of them had over 10 years friendship, therefore I valued friendship was one of the most important thing in my life and I want to tell everyone to cherish your friendship. Next picture was the thing we want it is intelligence, the message is to tell the audiences use your intelligence to think before you do and do not waste your gift to harm people. Lastly was one of the most important stage in my life, because after attending my best friend's wedding, I realized the importance of soul mate. They got over with all kinds of difficulties to have this wedding therefore by showing this photo I wish everyone can cherished their husband or wife.

By using Eugene Smith and Sebastiao Salgado photo shooting Style to show my pictures to my audience. These five photos represent five of my most important thing in my life, which were Health, Family, Friendship, Intelligence and Marriage. I hope everyone to be thankful if you have all five most valuable gifts in you life.