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Fear Through Cooking: A Junior Design Student Conceptual Project by Maximillian Raschke (2015)

My photo explores the fear that can be found through cooking implements, knives in particular. Cooking knives are meant to be used to prepare food by cutting up meat and other types of food. But, these knives can cut through human flesh just as easily as they can food. My photo exemplifies this concept with the two cooking knifes drenched in blood. I played around with many different angles and the positioning of the knives. I also played around with lighting using a red light to get a very evil feel. I chose this photo because it uses quite a few of the principles of photography. The photo uses the rule of thirds focusing on the edge of the left knife. It also uses background and depth with the butcher knife blurred in the background. It also uses eye level with the left knife almost perpendicular to the camera.

I did not end up editing my photo all that much. I added a vignette to enhance the dark feel of the photo. Other than that I did not add any filters to any certain part of my photo because my focus point did not need anything added to it. There was one filter I liked, but unfortunately it only worked when I put it over the whole photo. Plus I feel like my use of the principles of photography negates the need for a filter. During this process of editing my photo, I learned how to properly used the pen tool which is a very important part of Photoshop and any Adobe system. Going back to my first paragraph, my photo uses blood soaked cooking knives to convey a certain feeling of fear. The fear that these simple cooking tools could be used to take away something's life.
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