Barton+-+Place



__**Image One: City Alley**__ - For this image, in the location it seems in a higher in city with a large amount of people, the space is very broad and narrow. Looking at the alley, it has two buildings on both sides and the space is long and not very wide. For this certain image, it draws more effect to the image creating a more dramatizing look to it. Although there is not a person in the portrait place to have a mental or physical emotion at hand, there is still emotion that can come from a place. The author seemed to make this image dark, but by adding the effect of light made it brighten. It looks like the ground is wet, which makes me believe it was a stormy day or night. The artist in this photograph used leading lines and rule of thirds. With the one building on the side, then the alley, and then the other building it creates a divider of all three sections that causes the photograph to be split up into three different sections. Also along with this, there are leading lines, because your eye follows the alley walk way and follows the building windows. The artist of this image was SiD's, however the image title is not available on the website. - The website used was: www.flickr.com

__**Image Two: Old Architecture**__ - For this image, in the location it is narrower, however with the arches that lead to outside it makes your eye think it is wider than what it actually is. This artist that created this image, seems to be more of a deep person with a lot of emotions. It seems this artist has a more dramatic eye, to make the image create a different meaning of architecture. Architecture can be a very boring photo to shoot, however how the artist created the emotion of the black and white made the image really stand out. Throughout this image the two compositional techniques that were used the most often was leading lines and filling the frame. Due to the fact, that there are so many arches and door opening's that lead to outside, your eyes tend to follow the curves of the arches. Your eyes do not stay in one place, but follow every aspect of the image. For filling the frame, even though there is not one image focused, the focus of the image is really on one specific arch, which you can see when looking close to the image. The artist of the image is bibliotheqyedetrulouses, but the title of the image was not available on the website. - The website used was: www.flickr.com

__**Image Three: Restaurant/Glasses**__ - For this image, the scenery of the image is a restaurant, so a general restaurant has a larger space, filled with customers and waiters/waitresses. However, this image is focusing on primarily the glasses specifically, and not really the background. This artist that created this image, most likely really enjoyed the restaurant, because the light in the image is bright and seems to be in the daylight. The artist image stands out, mainly because of the light situation. Though it is blurred, the waiter in the background is walking towards the glasses, so he is most likely coming to grab those glasses, which shows his emotion that he is probably tired and working. The different compositional techniques used are primarily leading lines and filling the frame. Due to the glasses being rounded at the top and the dents/curves of the shelves, your eyes tend to follow the path of the shelves, glasses, etc. Although the glasses in the image are made to stand out, your eye looks everywhere because of the waiter in the background walking and the different curves/dents in the shelves, located in the portrait. Secondly, the compositional technique of filling the frame is used, because the edges of the portrait are filled by the bordering's of the shelves and the waiter in the background because he is mainly on the edge of the image that was shot, which fills out the frame with different objects, textures, and measurements. The artist of the image is Celine E.; but the title of the image was not available on the website. - The website used was: www.flickr.com

__**Artist Statement:**__ My final image for this assignment was an old antique piano with a clock transparent on the front, making it look old and rustic. For my image of portrait of a place, I used a digital ground on a transparent for my image. To present my portrait of a place, I used a Shadow Box to mount my picture in, which is located on the transparency. With that, I put old music lyric notes in the background of the box to tie in the piano and music together to create a stronger image. For my compositional techniques, I mainly used leading lines and filling the frame overall. My background image is the piano, which then I put the visual of the front of the clock over that image to make the piano be outlined by the clock or also looking at it as the piano being in the center of the image. Because of the clock outline of the piano, it took up the entire frame of the picture which filled the frame completely up, giving me the composition technique of filling the frame. Lastly, I used leading lines as my second composition technique. Due to the fact the piano is square and the clock is circular, the viewers eyes tend to look at the piano image and follow the designs of that, but then also take there eyes to follow the arches of the clock and the numbers within the clock as well, which gave me the leading lines compositional technique. For my principles of design, I really altered the tones of the image. By doing so, I changed the duotone's on Photoshop. Originally, I altered the brown tones of the image to create a more rustic look and feel to the image. However, because the picture turned out so dark with darker tones, I changed the image too black and white, altering the tones a small touch, to dim the colors but not make them as dark in the picture mounting. By changing the image to dimmer tones, it created a more rustic and older look, which was the message trying to be portrayed for my final piece. I also made the hue and saturation a real dim color to make the image almost a dark grey or black and white color to create once again the older look. Lastly, I altered and "played around" with the curves of the image to create some areas of the image to be darker, while other areas of the image lighter to create that feeling of time venturing away slowly; that time is precious, and to spend it wisely and happily is the key to happiness.