THE UNKNOWN
Process : Fear, its just a state of mind. It can be created just like an illusion. We were assigned to click one picture which should illustrate a feeling of fear.
Initially, I planned to capture a man with leather gloves on, in darkness. I used my phone's light to light up the frame and asked my mate to hold a knife that would reflect some of my phone's light which would make the knife stand out. That didn't work quite well for me. The composition failed. I should have tried excluding his face from the frame.
The very next day, at around 12:30am, I was drying out clothes outside our flat. That's when I saw my neighbor returning from some party. He was walking across the wooden fence in front of our house. I couldn't find out who that is in the beginning and that gave me a mini heart attack. I knew at that moment that I had to click it. But the moment had passed. I ran and stopped him and told that I need to click a picture of him and he was totally cool with it. He didn't ask why? or How? He didn't even suspect me of doing any funny business in the middle of the night with a camera. He simply helped me. Such a nice person.
I asked him to stand on the other side of the wooden fence and not to move even a bit. It was too dark and I wanted to take a long exposure shot. And I did.
The man's face wasn't visible but his presence was. That my friends, is known as 'FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN'.
This is the edited version of the raw image. The Unknown.
I brought up the greens and made the shadows darker. I chose not to crop it. Selected the man on the fence and darkened him too. The night's elements are now more clear,that is,darkness. And now it looks scarier than the previous one.
THE UNKNOWN.
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