Final

The intent behind my small world project was to create images that did not look like they came from a small scale set. Specifically I sought out to recreate a miniature-farming scene, one that would allow me to photograph all four main stages of the farming process. Disking, Planting, Growing, and Harvesting. I wanted to photograph each of those four scenes separately, but then also capture them all in one photograph. I wanted to try to abstractly show the idea that each stage in the process is equally as important, and without one of them it all falls apart. The fifth image in the series brings home this idea. I started by taking an aerial shot of the scene capturing all four stages within it. I then used Photoshop to assign a color filter to each of the four stages. The color each stage received is not chosen at random either. I chose a color that represents the season of the year that that stage of farming takes place, for example harvest is in the fall so it has an orange color filter. I also incorporated this same idea in the individual scene shots by using a sky with a tint of the respective color. Going back to the fifth image of the aerial shot. I decided to leave a small square of space un effected by any color filters right in the center of the scene. This square is there to represent that balance of all four stages in the farming process. If any of the stages were removed from the shot the implied square would fall apart.