I chose the metaphor I did because it depicted how I really feel about my life in the current situation I am in. I was trying to express all my stress I have in my life at the end of this senior year. The mood I wanted to capture was the mood of disappointment.
I placed everything where I did so I could make this piece compositionally sound. I believe my focal area is very sound because the tornado has good contrast with the rest of the picture so it looks like the tornado just pops out. I think my picture is very balanced because it has a great emphasis and stuff around it to not make the picture boring. My image feels unified because I think all my additions fit together.
I think I did quite well on my composition because everything flows. The most difficult thing to do in this project was trying to figure out how to incorporate myself in this picture. I think I could have done better on making myself more into the tornado, rather than just pasting my face over it. I don’t want to change anything because if I do that, the picture might come out worse.
In the first picture I metered by focusing on Gustavo's skin. On the second picture I metered by focusing on the computer screen. The first picture came out awesome because I metered Gus's skin and the camera used that as the midtone. The second picture turned out dark because it used the bright screen of the camera as the midtone and made everything else dark.
