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If I Were To Go Blind Tomorrow (Post-Production Reflection) By Amy Godin The subject of this photograph is a broken camera. My message for my audience is “loss can affect your life” this is demonstrated through the destroyed camera. My aspiration is to peruse photography as a career; if I were to go blind tomorrow my dream to have a career in photography would not be able to be persued. The logical thing to do would be to give away the camera, but instead, I would personally want to bid adieu to the item that my future career relies on, the camera. It would be my physical, but destructive, way of saying goodbye to my career, but in a creative manner. My initial composition choice was to have the camera at the bottom of the frame surrounded by a solid colored background to emphasize space and make the camera stand out as my subject. However, upon photographing the camera destruction I found landscape more effective and easier to accomplish then portrait style. The subject was captured to the left of the frame close to the flash allowing it to be illuminated effectively by the flash and keeping it to the side brings your eyes to the focal point. The camera is in focus, along with the floor where the impact was made showing the moment of the camera colliding with the ground and breaking. Elements and principles of art that were used were; movement, the camera strap shows a chaotic scene of the camera being thrown and the direction of which the camera is going, line, the strap of the camera causes your eyes to follow it and draws you towards the subject, contrast, the silver on the camera with the black of the camera and the shadows, form is shown through the variety of shapes, the cylinder of the lens, the triangle created by the lens and the camera body, the rectangular prism of the camera, and space is shown by the simple non chaotic, dimly lit background making the camera stand out. The point of view is an eye-to-eye view; the camera is placed on the ground where the subject is to be captured and is level with the subject. There are no other items in the frame that are focused on, the camera is the focal point and the composition techniques I used assisted me in achieving having it as my point of interest. The use of technical qualities in this photograph was to use a sound trigger to capture the camera breaking. The sound trigger itself was a challenge in itself; it consisted of a potentiometer, a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR), a transistor (PN2222A), connector wires, a flash, a battery, and a breadboard. The potentiometer was used to adjust the pitch, and determine the distance it was able to be from the noise to trigger the flash, the SCR was used to control the current, the PN2222A was used to used to amplify or switch electronic signals, the connector wires were used to hook everything up, the battery and battery connector supplied power to the circuit, the breadboard “housed” the components and connected them as well. The buzzer picked up the sound causing the buzzer to pick up a signal that it sent through the circuit triggering the flash. The flash was attached to the sound trigger with a short amount of cable, thus the flash was relatively close to the subject due to the fact that the sound trigger needed to be close. I placed the camera in the general area that I anticipated to drop it and focused on it, then turned off the lights and used bulb setting, this combined with the sudden short burst of light allowed me to capture the impact of the camera being thrown. The Pentax camera was hanging onto dear life, and thankfully due to the sound trigger, I was able to capture the final throw where the camera finally broke, which was my anticipated goal from day one.