Mulkerrins-Madeline-Texture

 



 My idea was to show that “the past is the past.” Of course, my subject was not a veteran, but those who are may be feeling as though they want to put the past behind them. The rocky background also symbolizes the past, and the flag coming out of the ground a new beginning. I used Zoe’s (my subject) solemn facial expression to show the difficulty of moving on. The texture’s I attempted to include were the rocky background, the seemingly in motion look of the flag, and the way that Zoe is looking. For editing my pictures, I changed the levels, the mode and used the spot healing brush for all of them, in that order. I then cut out the picture of Zoe, eliminating the background and pasted her onto the picture of the rocky ground. I cut out the picture of the flag next and pasted that next to Zoe. I think I did an alright job in editing my photos, and could have improved filling the frame, since most of the frame is the background rather than the subject. I hoped that my message would come across in the way that I was meaning it to.