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Clean Air Photo Illustration
Thomas B. Shea, Photographer
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Pearland/Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 4:55 PM on 07.20.09 |
->> How would you illustrate clean air, besides showing smog, or a field with a clear sky , or a clear sky? Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom |
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Baron Sekiya, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Keaau | HI | USA | Posted: 5:09 PM on 07.20.09 |
->> How about a smoggy day with a sidewalk peddler selling clean air to breathe just like folks selling water bottles on a hot day?
Or maybe Photoshop together something that looks like those fancy water bottles but they contain clean breathing air?
Put surgical masks on trees? |
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Max Gersh, Photographer
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St. Louis | MO | USA | Posted: 5:19 PM on 07.20.09 |
->> My editors always told me that by definition, a photo illustration should be CLEARLY NOT REAL without reading the photo illustration tag. That being said, I tend to brainstorm them a bit overboard and then pull my ideas a bit closer to reality.
Showing clean air seems difficult because it is something we can't see. However, showing the process of cleaning the air is something that can be more tangible.
What about a picture with smog being sucked into a vacuum? The background can be a field. The field is healthy and vibrant where the vacuum has cleaned but gloomy where the smog still exists.
Running with the vacuum idea, you could have a someone with a vacuum inverted and straight up in the air as if they are trying to vacuum the sky. This could be one person or a long shot with an entire neighborhood doing it.
I know these ideas are a little bit out there but the readers need to associate something with the word "clean" and something with the word "air." I don't know if these are the answer but they approach that idea. |
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Ron Erdrich, Photographer
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Abilene | TX | USA | Posted: 5:31 PM on 07.20.09 |
->> Max, you and I came up with the same idea. Running with the vacuum imagery, here's my suggestion:
Have two separate images, one with blue sky and another with a plume of smoke in it. Select and copy the plume of smoke and paste it into the blue sky photo. Use the smudge tool to stretch it out a bit.
Next, shoot a picture of somebody holding a vacuum cleaner, maybe a dustbuster or perhaps the nozzle with the hose hanging out of the frame. Paste that image into the sky photo also, then smudge the smoke layer a little more so that it looks like the vacuum is sucking up the pollution.
You can have just an arm holding the vacuum or you can put somebody's face in it with maybe a determined expression of some kind to make it interesting. |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 5:31 PM on 07.20.09 |
->> How about a shot of a "dry cleaning" shop but instead of racks of clothes you have racks of dry cleaning bags full of obviously dirty air (an "air cleaning" shop). Foreground the counter person is handing the "camera" a bag full of "cleaned" air. A receipt tag is visible on the bag with an itemized list of what was done to it: "- CFC removal $20", "- Carbon Recovery $10", "- Ozone Treatment $12.95", etc. There could also be signage around the shop with similar theme.
If you didn't want to go to the complexity of doing the entire dry cleaner shop mockup, you could just do a bag with the receipt. |
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Jody Gomez, Photographer
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Murrieta | CA | USA | Posted: 6:18 PM on 07.20.09 |
| ->> How about a shot of the inside of one of those oxygen bars, if they have them in your area. |
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