OUGD503 - Secret 7 - Development of Outcome

I took these photos of our bathroom windows in the hope that after having a shower they'd be steamed up and there would be a noticeable difference. I could then use the two as positives and negatives around a handprint that I could edit on in Photoshop. I took them at this time of day as I wanted a fairly light background because of the generally positive and happy tone of the song and the video.

These are the photos I took after having a shower. Due to a combination of it not being as bright outside and the build up of condensation on the windows, they were too unrecognisable to use together.

The glass pane above the bath had steamed up quite nicely to become hazily opaque. The reflections of the rest of the room caused a slight variation of colour across the glass. This was a texture that I was looking for, so I photographed it. Unfortunately when I made a handprint on it the camera didn't pick up the difference of texture so it didn't work out to be as easy as I thought it would.

I cropped it down to a square that had areas of differing hues and shades of colour due to the reflections.

I made a simple vector of a lightly pressed hand. The hand is only gently pressed on and has thin fingertips because this suggests more of a female imprint, and most sexual representation tends to revolve around the female form.

I used it as a mask on the cropped photograph and darkened the area it sat in to make it look somewhat like a handprint. However, when I reversed the masked area to make the hand area lighter it looked a lot more natural.

Because I drew it to look like a gently pressed hand it doesn't have much presence on the page. To counter this I increased the size of it and rotated it so that it fully fit on the page. At this point it just didn't look right on the screen because of how the light areas were at such a visual imbalance with each other. Increasing it even further remedied this with some more rotating and repositioning of it, as now the right hand side was more dominant, which makes it easier to look at. Because of this the negative space is more prominent than it previously was, which is something I wanted to feature.

The edges between the light and dark areas were quite sharp so I smoothed them a bit to make it more comfortable to look at. I only did this slightly as with it being obvious that the hand had been imposed onto the background, it had quite a deviant tone which is somewhat relevant to the sexualised nature of the music industry, without taking away from the intimacy I wanted it to suggest. This is what I submitted.