Xee Vue/Artist Statement

“Plain and Simple”

A quote that simply I made up to describe my photo that I had taken so far. Basically, I’ve been focusing on many different projects but all of them I did edited it in Adobe Photoshop. In Adobe Photoshop, the tool that I would use the most often is Smudge, Burn, Dodge, Blur, and the desaturated and saturated Tools. Basically, I would just say that I used all of the regular tools.

So as for right now, I’m focusing on Street Photography. In Street Photography, I edited it in Adobe Photoshop, like the others project, but instead of using only just those tools in there. I used Artistic Filter, Paint Buckets, and the Gradient tools. I chose to use these tools in the Adobe Photoshop because according to my vision or my thinking, I thought that probably this would make my photo stand out more. Within these three tools, I would use the Artistic Filter more often. I guess I just like how it makes my Photo turn out into a totally different photo. For example, I would use the Colored-Pencil, Outlet, Charcoal, and Poster Edges. Out of all the Artistic Filter, I liked using the Poster Edges because it makes my photo shows the black outline of it and I liked how it makes the contrast level higher than usually. I could say that I liked using high contrast. Therefore, I would use the Poster Edges more often on my Street Photography.

In my Street Photography, I pay homage to Paul Strand, the photographer that I chose to pay homage to by not just taking photo of people wondering around the street. But also, I had taken photo of building or Cars, or anything on the street that would create some kind of pattern. Like in Paul Strand’s Photography, he would often take some photos of some object that is plain and simple and makes it into unique pattern. Therefore, I believe that in order to pay homage to him, I would too, takes photo of not just people wondering around streets but instead have some sort of pattern. The differences between our photos are that, in my photo, I had more of a High contrast while he had more of a Low contrast. The reason probably is, because of the difference or the uniqueness of the contrast that attracted us to different things. Also, the difference between my photo and his is on how we took our photo. The reason I stated this is because in each of the photo that I seen of his work were either portraits of people or pattern of object. In my work, it’s full buildings and landscape. But in some ways, we both had some sort of pattern together. This is how I pay homage to Paul Strand.

“Plain and Simple”

I still think that it’s still the quote that describes my photo, because once you look at it, you might be thinking. “ Why did she take this?” or “What’s so unique about this?” or even “ What is her message of this photo?” But if you look deep into it, you’ll see something that others might not see. Therefore, I believe I would still have the same quote “ Plain and Simple”