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Decided to blend the two images together and decrease the saturation to give a very ominous or eerie vibe. Gives it a darker history in my opinion.

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This is my final piece for sustained investigation piece 4. I like the more somber and moody lighting. I really wanted to capture how social media/phones are really the start of a decline for young girls and how it fuels insecurity.

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I really like the way it came out. It is sort of ominous and I love the way the background looks. It also has a lot of drama in the way I am positioned and looking. I really like that I was able to take inspiration from one of my favorite forms of art to inspire my own.

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I wanted to have a duplicate sort of in the background of the photo to show possibly some inner turmoil or the fading of a soul or the person you used to be. A lot of what losing your innocence is is losing the youth that you used to have. A fading picture can show the beginning of the end of that. To create this effect, I put the picture into photoshop, duplicated it and turned down the opacity on the duplicate. I also moved the duplicate behind the original to emphasize the fade.

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Decided to go down a different route and picture a skirt falling down.

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Increased the exposure a little bit, added some grain, and lowered the contrast slightly through editing. I edited on lightroom because I didn't want to alter much on my photo, just wanted to change some lighting.

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There are so many young people, people who are barely teenagers, dealing with extreme mental health issues. They are given medications and taken to facilities to help treat them. I wanted to highlight that these people are still children most of the time. They still are playing with toys and own stuffed animals, but are also taking medication and feel misunderstood or trapped.

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I wanted a this piece to capture that feeling of being lost. It isn't the most on the nose way to show it; photographing a sole shoe in the grass, but it allowed for questions to arise leading to the essential question. Why is the shoe there? Where is the other one? What happened to the girl wearing the shoe? I also purposely chose a child-like shoe.

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I put the picture in photoshop so I could just fix up the image a bit. I blurred some of the background and changed up some of the lighting.

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The Virgin Suicides is a film that looks into girlhood in such a fascinating and relatable way. I love Sofia Coppola as a director and the way she examines girlhood and she is a big influence on my work. The wrists in the picture are Cecilia Lisbon's, who recently attempted suicide. She was only 13 and so young and that loss of innocence is a very big idea in my theme.

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This is where I decided to shoot my photo. I used the candle to hold up my phone and put the photo on a timer. I took this in my backyard, and the weather was kind of gloomy, which was pretty fitting.

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Took different pictures in longe exposure with different lights, just to try something and have a start.

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Eva getting ready to be photographed.

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Figuring out how to set up the scene and how Eva should be positioned.

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I was inspired by a scene in Sofia Coppola's, The Virgin Suicides, which I believe deals with girlhood and loss of innocence incredibly well. It fits with my theme a lot and this scene in particular is very impactful.

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I took the photo into lightroom and decided to turn down the exposure and add more texture and dehaze. I played around with a lot of the different lights and effects in lightroom and in photoshop, just so I could figure out what it is exactly that I wanted for my photo and how I could just naturally play up the image. It gave it a slightly softer and washed out look, which I really liked as I feel it reflected the nature of the photo.

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Saw this picture of this woman, who I believe is dealing with a lot of emotional distress, and thought it fit my main theme very well. I also love seeing mascara running, I think it adds so much to crying and feels very dramatic or cinematic.

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I wanted to show how are harshest critics are usually ourselves. There are so many instances where we just self deprecate to a point where they are going beyond just "voices in your head"; they are sometimes being written down and commented by yourself. Writing something down is just as permanent as writing something online, in my opinion. I wanted to show the subject (myself) crumbling the paper up as a way to try and get rid of those thoughts, but they're clearly still there.

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I decided to write those words with a red marker because red signifies urgency and importance and it is also really bold, especially with the capital letters; it's almost as if the subject is trying to scream these thoughts. I tried crumbling it in many different ways, angles, and even tried stepping on it, but ultimately this is the one I chose.

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I saw this photo on Pinterest and changed it up quite a bit, but just seeing this photo inspired me to spin it in a way that would relate to my EQ.

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I found a shoe that was youthful looking and feminine (if that makes sense; childlike) and positioned all over my backyard. Nature is such a big part of growing up and we almost always associate childhood with playing outside, at least as a big part of childhood. Putting a sole shoe out in grass was my way of showing a part of our youth that's no longer there.

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Stress is the most universal part of becoming a teenager, in my opinion. School can be very stressful at this period of life and it makes you look at everything so differently because now you are experiencing something that you would think only adults go through. And you're still a child. I wanted to capture how relentless school can be on your mental health as a young teen and that usually involves missing assignments or having too many assignments to handle.

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I wanted to make the photo in black and white, just to give it a bit of a more melancholic edge. I did this in lightroom by bumping up the contrast all the way and bumping up the whites in the photograph.

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Stress is a big part of losing your innocence. I wanted to capture that sinking feeling when you have an overflow of assignments do and you start to feel overwhelmed. I decided to photograph my subject around lots of papers, a binder, and a computer to show the school aspect of the stress. Then I photographed her with her hands clasping her head, nails digging in the hair to show the mental burden.

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I edited this in lightroom. I didn't want too much editing on it because I still wanted it to be a raw image, without too much editing. I was thinking about possibly shooting this in a brighter light or editing it with a brighter light, but ultimately decided against it in favor of it looking more natural.

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For this piece, I wanted to use an old pill bottle and a stuffed animal to convey a loss of innocence. I found a stuffed animal of mine and some old medication in a cabinet to show that juxtaposition of being young, but also dealing with mental health issues.