PAINTING WITH LIGHT

In this photo I wanted to represent the inner struggle within the teenager. These days a lot of teenagers deal with internal struggles being pulled this way and that. They could be dealing with their parents being divorced and they have to choose between living with their mom or their dad. It could be their friendship groups splitting apart and they have to choose. It could also represent the struggles of being peer pressured into things they don't want to do. A final thing it could represent and also the one that applies most to me is the struggle internally in the mind. The constant fight of whether you're good enough or not, if you should do something or not. Often the struggle and the tension gets too much and the person snaps. I made this photo dark because often thats what the thoughts or the subjects that are pulling are, dark and gloomy. I made sure that you could not see the things that were pulling her other than the hands because there are an infinite number of things that could be pulling. I took this picture by setting the shutter speed to 20 seconds in the darkroom and the aperture to 4.5. I used a second camera to flash her leaning to one side and then I flashed a second time when she was leaning the other way.