Agitation When Traveling: A Junior Design Student Conceptual Project by Rachel Sims (2015)

I am showing the feeling of agitation when traveling to a new place. When I was creating this photo I really wanted to find two objects that would make the viewer relate to my photo. The two objects that I used in my photo were a pair of converse and a street sign. I tied the laces of the converse together and put them over the button below the sign. I have the shoes facing opposite directions to show confusion. I shot at a high shutter speed at a busy intersection so that the cars that passed by in the photo were blurry. I purposely included shadows of the trees in the background on the pavement to add a sense of depth. I shot this photo at a little angle looking up so that you see the sky, that contains different shades of blue. During this whole project I learned a lot about the photoshop process. Since I started learning how to use photoshop cropping and the use of the pen tool have been hard tasks for me. However with multiple trials I finally got the hang of it. In my photo I put a filter over the sign of the restaurant. I also edited the brightness and exposure of my picture. I think that photoshop really helped enhance my photo and made it the best it could be.

My photo exemplifies my concept statement from english in many different ways. The old worn out converse are the metaphor for traveling to new places. The location of the photo is a metaphor as well because intersections are used every day while traveling to different places. The converse and the sign convey a sense of irony and agitation because the sign is telling you that in order to move you have to push the button, but there is nothing with the ability to push the button in the photo. Also, the blur of the cars in the intersection shows caos, and leave us with a stressful feeling. In my photo I decided to put the filter of the restaurant's name because I thought blurring out the letters gave a sense of unknown. Overall, I believe that my photo does a good job of illustrating my concept statement.