TWO ON THE MOON .

Using my Canon T80 film camera I photographed my subject in color film. After getting the film developed, I photographed each negative using the copy stand and film holder. I took these images into Adobe Lightroom and used a plug in to convert my negative images to the positives you see now. The process isn’t perfect, so there is a lot of wiggle room for the coloring of the positive image. The beauty in this process is that I have so much creative freedom in choosing how I want my color film to look in the final print.

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For my series, Two on the Moon, Moon Rocks, I wanted the location to be as important as my models in the photographs. Having the rock formations and the models become one, but also to contrast against each other flawlessly. Achieving this meant laying on some of the rocks and photographing at many different angles, along with having my models pose for portraits in order to stand out from the rocky formations. I dressed my two female models in simple black clothing. The purpose of this choice of clothing was a way to not distract from the textures and natural patterns found in the rocks around us, but to also add heavy contrast in order to further the obvious contrast between woman and rock. Women are smooth and beautiful, while rocks are rigid and rough to the touch and the colors are not always bright or pretty. Furthermore, I wanted to showcase the similarities between woman and rock. Women are very strong beings who go through child birth and theirs bodies are able to adapt to those drastic changes. Rocks are also very strong and withstand all forms of weather damage and throughout it all, you can see the effects in their new patterns and colors that are revealed from the damage.