"Mermaid Dreams"
For this image, my final, I took a photography of a mermaid statue that I have owned for a year now. Even though it is missing an arm, it's still very beautiful and I thought it would be a perfect thing to photograph.
I placed the statue, which is about a foot tall, on a stool with a white cover on it in front of a white background and used a strobe light tp try and get perfect lighting. I took 35 shots and found only 8 I like and decided to use this one. You can't see all of the mermaid, like in the previous photo I posted, but you can see just enough to get a feel of how much detail was used in creating the statue.
I edited the photo in photoshop, adding in a stock picture of some bubbles coming up from the ocean, up to the surface, to capture the feel her hair shows of floating.
I chose this idea, still focusing on fantasy, because the subject of mermaids has always been important to me. They are something that everyone knows about. A common subject in stories and mythology all over the world. By taking this picture, I wanted to release the binds of people's imagination to not be afriad to believe in things others may not find real by trying to make the mermaid as realistic as I could. It's a little hard to tell, but that's what I was trying to do. I personally believe in the existance of mermaids and I believe my next series is going to be surrounded around this concept of making what people believe in real.
