
For my light project, I decided to do a silhouette. When I first read the project description, I immediately thought about doing photography. Through the idea of a silhouette, I wanted to express a darker, lonely emotion through the photos. I took pictures of my friends with their shadows on the wall. Through these shadows I wanted them to represent what it can be like sometimes being in college. Sometimes, especially in the beginning of the school year, I felt trapped in my dorm alone without my family and felt homesick. I wanted to portray this feeling through my project. I used the dorm walls and a dark shadow of my friends to show a feeling of loneliness within a dorm. For the experimentation part of the project, I utilized different light sources to see which one best reflected the shadow on the wall. The first two photos use a regular phone flashlight, while the last photo uses a desk light. The desk light best showed the shadow on the wall, and having the camera be portrait rather than landscape best fit the shadow in the photo.
