Laskowski+A-Texture

=Texture Combine 3 =

Photography is much more than just a picture. Each element used to create the image has a much deeper meaning behind it, shaping the concept as a whole. The creation of my final image required many alterations on my original photographs. First off, on the first day of shooting photos, the camera I was using was acting up, causing all my pictures to turn out darker than expected. In the photoshop tool, however, I managed to brighten the picture I intended to use that were too dark for my liking. Once my boardwalk picture was brightened, I placed it as the background of my final piece. I then placed the image of the tree on top of the boardwalk. In order to erase the unwanted parts of the tree image to fit with the boardwalk, I changed the opacity of the tree image so I was able to see the boardwalk through that layer. Once the boardwalk was visible, I erased around the tree so the boardwalk outlined and filled around the trees. After this image was finished, I saved it as one. Wanting to add some color to my image, I decided to incorporate an image of a flower I took. I added the flower image to photoshop and cropped and erased the background until all that was left was the flower itself. In order to add the flower to the combined image I had previously saved, I just copy and pasted it in. Because of how bright the flower was, it looked very unnatural compared to the wooded background, so I changed the opacity to make it duller, still keeping it bright enough so it adds contrast to the rest of the neutral image. Within my piece, rule of thirds, leading lines, and level horizon are present. The breaks between each boardwalk plank create straight horizontal lines. As for the trees, each separate branch leads the eyes to want to continue beyond the top of the image. These contrasting directions add interest to my overall piece. Because of how centered the tree was in the image, I wanted to added a different vocal point, and inserted the flower off to the side, following the rule of thirds. I focused on contrasting the texture between the two forms of wood seen within my piece. The actual tree itself has a very rough looking texture, while the boardwalk gives off a smooth appearance. Rather than just having neutral colors all throughout my piece, I wanted to spice it up a bit and add a bright color in the piece as well. Overall this piece incorporates a lot of contrast piece each piece of wood. The directions of their lines as well as textures are complete opposites, but they come together to create quite a cool image. My intended concept was life and death. The boardwalk symbolizes death, as it is created with a dead tree, while the actual tree represents life as it is still living. As for the flower, it represents all that is beautiful in life, as well as the peacefulness of death. It’s used to tie together the two contrasting images. Overall, I’m very proud with how my image turned out. I initially was just playing around with photoshop, and ended up liking the work I created between the two piece of wood. If it wasn’t for the requirement of three or more images, I would have left my piece as is because of how much I truly enjoyed it. If I could change anything about my piece, I would probably find a better third image to incorporate into the final piece. I originally had wood chips covering the entire image, with the opacity lower the boardwalk and tree could still be seen, but I felt as though that covering both pieces took away from the overall texture of the piece, and decided to change my third image. Since this was more of a last minute change, I rushed to choose what I wanted my new image to be. With more thought of this addition, I feel as though the third image could have potentially created a much bigger impact on my intended concept and overall image as a whole.