I chose to photograph this specific barn for my architecture assignment. The reason for this is that when I was younger I would go to a summer camp next to this barn. I remember at the end of every day of camp, I would walk out to this barn and wait for my mother to pick me up. I remember laying down, looking up at the sky, and wondering what it would be like to have the world turn upside down, having me fall into the clouds. I photographed this perspective in the first photograph of the barn. I think this is a really interesting barn because it is partly new and old. If you look at the blueprint, you will see on the bottom, the barn is made of stones, but the top is made of steel. I think this is captivating because it seems like the barn is growing up to me, even though I know it is not alive. A problem I faced was editing the blueprint, because I only wanted the building to show. I accomplished this by painting everything around the building white. I used "vibrance" in the first photograph to make the red pop! I also used "levels" in the blueprint to show contrast between the lines.
I chose to photograph a mansion in Saline, called the Davenport House. This mansion was built in 1875 for William H. Davenport, a prominent Saline citizen. Since I live in Ann Arbor, I rarely visit Saline, but that wasn't always the case. I actually lived in Saline until I was four years old, and I distinctly remember this house and the imagination it allowed me to have. I remember making up countless stories about who lived in this house, going all the way to a scary pirate with a parrot. I wanted to emphasis the feeling of this home being enchanting by using "curves" to add contrast and shadows in the first photograph. A challenge I had was not making the first photograph too dark, and I accomplished this by using "brightness and contrast" to lighten the photograph after using "curves". In addition, I used "levels" to make the details on the mansion show up better in the blueprint.