I didn't want to base my fourth double page spread on any particular image pair from the life and death exercise. This is because I wanted to creatively combine the 'old and new' theme with the idea of life and death, and I could not think of an appropriate way I could do this with any of the image pairs I made for exercise four.
I used an image of a newborn baby to represent the ideas of life and new, and in image of an old man to represent the ideas of death and old.
I increased the warm tones, and made the image of the baby and her mother softer in terms of contrast to enhance the feeling of life. I increased the cold tones by using blue filters and increased the harshness of the image of the old man to give the feeling of death. I also darkened some areas of the photo around the outside and contrasted this with a strong light on one side to symbolise 'going towards the light', and therefore death further.
I think that the contrasting tones, colours, and harshness of the two images, along with the symbolism of the photos works very effectively in this double page spread to compare my two themes.
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