Documentary - BICAS

For the Photo Documentary, I decided to document BICAS (Bike Inter-Community Art and Salvage). Tucson has one of the largest biking communities in the country, and places like BICAS are important. It offers the community a place where anyone can go fix their bike. Unlike a regular bike shop, BICAS also offers classes on how to maintain bikes or even build one from scratch! This is possible because they accept donations of unwanted bikes, examine them, take the good parts, and organize them throughout the shop by piece. With the bad parts comes the art side of BICAS. With these pieces they make interesting figurines, like their famous saguaro made out of bicycle rims. Though small, BICAS is a big place open to the community for their biking needs.

Emphasis / Texture

Here I tried to make emphasis of the Saguaro. I played around with the camera and found a filter that cancels all colors (or try at least) except green, a great tool to emphasize the Saguaro more than anything. In order to make these more interesting, I took pictures of bushes with the Saguaro in the background. Since the pictures are in black and white except for the pictures, it seems that the Saguaro is the only one in the area.

The second element I chose was texture. Saguaros are perfect to take close-ups of their needles. I played with different focus points on the needles, making them looks as if they are coming out at you, almost 3D. I also played around with the lighting of the sun, placing it behind the Saguaro and illuminating all the needles. However, they were not as appealing to the e

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