First Photo Post

This was one of the images i took for my photo assignment involving taking 25 pictures that are a part of someone's life. This image is my set of basement stairs. I chose to take a picture of the stairs because they are a key part of my life and my hobbies. My hobbie is playing video games and playing the drums, so everyday after school, i go down these stairs to the basement to play my video games and make music on my drums. Because my drums, my video games and TV are all in the basement, everyone in my family jokes about how i live in the basement and that it's like my lair or crypt because of how dimly lit the basement is. I reflected these observations in my work by using a high angle shot to give the feeling of the stairs descending deep down into oblivion. To reflect the idea that it's my dark crypt, i turned the photo black and white, adjusted the contrast, and added a dust/grain filter to give it a gritty and morbid theme.