CHROMA magazine
february
DEVIATION
EDITOR’S LETTER As creative individuals, we often draw our inspiration from outside sources. Books, movies, music, and other artistic mediums spark ideas that turn into meaningful pieces. In this issue of Chroma, our photographers were challenged to select a piece or genre of art and deviate from its original message to create a series that is inspired and diverse in its creative origin.
DEVIATION
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staff gallery kaylee kepple // 006 betsy hanrahan // 012 paisley hobbs // 018 sabrina pruett // 026 olivia madrid // 034 audrey maddux // 040 sara wheatley // 046 P. 026
ellie josephson // 054 madeleine newton // 062 louise hewitt // 068 kastine cook // 074
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jane greene // 082 anna cornwell // 088 kayla sousa // 094 makena wilcox // 100 tara umesh // 108
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ON THE COVER: kastine cook // 074
kaylee kepple
MONDE EN COULEUR
WHAT DID YOU DO? For my photo series, I took inspiration from album covers that I sought to be intriguing. Most of the album covers were for alternative or rap artists. I then recreated them, adding images of my own, as well as my own little personal flare to each to ensure originality and creativity! WHY DID YOU DO IT? I wanted to recreate these album covers, mainly because most of the ones I chose required graphic design techniques. I am quite fascinated with graphic design at the moment, so I wanted to dabble into that area, and take advantage of this photo series to improve on those skills. I thought it would not only be a great way to ‘tribute’ the artists great album work, but also recognize that in specific cases such as these; judging a book by its cover should be received as a compliment. Considering it means the artwork for the album is extremely well done, as well as countless of hours, ideas, thoughts/effort has been put into it.
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betsy hanrahan
UNABRIDGED
ARTIST STATEMENT I created this series because cinematography is something I have always wanted to dabble in. Ever since I saw my first Quentin Tarantino movie, I wanted to make an attempt at something similar. My series is heavily inspired by “The Hateful Eight” and “Django: Unchained.” Both of these movies are spaghetti western; they’re violent, yet elegant. Tarantino’s imagery and aspect ratio inspired me. I used a 2.4 by 1 aspect ratio, his style of violence (perhaps a little less violent) and symmetrical imagery inspired by Tarantino. I decided to do a shift focus between images to represent how filmmakers, such as Tarantino, use rack focuses. For this series, I began creating a story that I could take photos to. I sketched out the image I wanted to get. I gathered the props (bag, fake guns, etc.). Then, I created the fake blood using a recipe I found online. I drove to a road near Vancouver Lake to take the photos. After taking the photos, I edited them using Photoshop Cs6. I did minimal edits to lighting and contrast. I used the clone stamp to remove unwanted imagery, such as end of the fake guns, which was red. I hope that from this series, I can create many more. I admire the idea of cinematography—the fact that every shot is important and furthers a story. I would also like to collaborate with Moving Image Arts group to create a movie with stunning imagery.
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paisley hobbs
CUBISM
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sabrina pruett
CRY BABY
ARTIST STATEMENT For this series I wanted to experiment with harsh lighting. I did my models makeup and focused on bright colors. In Photoshop I used a filter to add cool tones to the images and brightened eye shadow using the Dodge Tool. I also used the Burn Tool to darken and contour parts of the model.
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olivia madrid
STITCHED
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audrey maddux
LIFE IN MOTION
ARTIST STATEMENT I’ve been very interested in motion photography lately, so the prompt to create a photo series “inspired by another art form” gave me the freedom to experiment with both freezing movement as well as showing motion through photos to create a series inspired by dance. I overlaid two or more photos to create a sense of motion in three of the photos in the series and used a high shutter speed to freeze the motion in the other two.
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SARA WHEATLEY
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ellie josephson
AFTERNOON ACOUSTICS
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madeleine newton
BLUE NOTE PRESENTS
WHAT DID YOU DO? For this series I took photos inspired by jazz album covers, of some of my fellow musicians in jazz band. I wanted to add my own unique photography style, but I also put them in black and white so that they would still connect back to the older photos that I was inspired by. Then I added text to the photos, with the names of the people I took pictures of, so that it would retain the idea of being an album cover. WHY DID YOU DO IT? I did this because; along with photography I am also a musician. When I saw the theme for this month, I viewed it as an opportunity to combine two forms of art that I love.
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louise hewitt
STUDY IN FILM
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kastine cook
HANNAH HUNT
WHAT DID YOU DO? I created a series inspired by the song Hannah Hunt by Vampire Weekend. To create the imagery I personally associate with the song, I shot this series in two parts. The first part of this series are black and white simplistic portraits and the second being long shots taken in a greenhouse. I took these photos with my Nikon D3100 and a prime lens. In Photoshop, I turned the portraits black and white and played around with layers to add the song’s sound waves to all the photos. WHY DID YOU DO IT? The song that I based my series off from is about a particular person (by the name of Hannah Hunt) who is described as someone who makes moments magical and timeless. These attributes I tried to capture by taking portraits of my friend Natalie. I then went on to turn the photos black and white to match the album cover. The second half of my series represents another aspect of the song, the repeated mentioning of plants. In an attempt to show this particular quality I took photos in a greenhouse. This gave me the opportunity to surround my model with greenery. In order to create the connection between my series and the song even more obvious, I used my iPhone to record the song and then selected parts of the sound waves to place on top of all my images. By combining these elements, my wish was that the images convey the essence of the song.
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jane greene
CRY BABY CRY
WHAT DID YOU DO? I took photos of a subject primarily with the light from a street lamp. I used a slow shutter speed, and had my model move just her head in order to achieve an image where her features were only somewhat distinguishable. I put the photos into Photoshop, and used the clone stamp tool to remove lights from houses in the background. I also used a magenta filter on some of the photos for a kind of strange, eerie feel. WHY DID YOU DO IT? I was inspired by the song “cry baby cry” by the Beatles, the photos I ended up taking are not what I pictured at first. In fact, this isn’t what I see in my head at all when I listen to the song. I usually picture a dreamy, kind of whimsical scene. However at the end of the song, the lyrics start to turn to something darker, kind of unsettling. This is what got me thinking, and changed the direction I took my series. I thought the dim lighting from the streetlamps was quite ideal for taking eerie portraits. I also wanted a ghostly effect, so I used a long shutter speed.
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ANNA CORNWELL ARTIST STATEMENT For the inspiration of this series I talked to students in different art forms about photo ideas and what some activities they do in their art form classes. After talking to Emma Langley who is in Lit Arts she told me about an activity they do. Their class observes a painting and then writes a response focusing on any aspect of that painting. I took this idea and put a spin on it, I asked my friend Katie Stevenson to paint her response to the poem Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. These photos are a follow me a round style series that captures Katie’s artistic process.
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kayla sousa
TITLE SEQUENCE
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makena wilcox
A WALK IN TIME
“It’s all very beautiful and magical here, a quality in which cannot be described.” – Ansel Adams
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TARA UMESH
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