Photo Essay
For my photo essay I decided to capture the circle of life with flowers. I took these photos in the courtyard while I was in class. I decided to choose this place when Mrs. Troutman had us go into the courtyard to take photos of the flowers and the idea popped in my head. The concept I am trying to portray in this is that a flower will grow and then eventually die, whether that is due to the elements, people or just age. Visually the photos capture the narrative I am trying to portray. The narrative starts with the first photo portraying that the flower is starting to grow up. Then eventually it starts to grow and the first bulb is produced. The flower then sprouts and blooms.It then shows the flowers growing in mass and then eventually dying. The strongest photo in my opinion is the 8th. This is the strongest because it captures the petal falling off the flower. I used the camera raw filter to edit this and messed around with the lights, darks, clarity and saturation to get the result i had.