Houck+K-+Texture



Texture Final Re-edited Final (After critique input)

For this texture project we were to combine at least 3 different types of texture into one final photo. To start on my background image of the garage I erased both the shadow from the tree and a dirt pile in the left corner. Then overall I darkened the image so it wouldn't have as much glare from the sun, and brightened the color of both blue and homes tan and then darkened the color green. From then I added my "fence" and erased the black in-between the bars so we could see through it to the rest of the image. After that I went around cropping in the different grave stones to fill up the space a little bit more. To add a little bit of color I added some small flowers next to a few graves. Finally I used the burn tool to darken part of the graves and fence and the dodge to add a little bit of highlight of the sun from the left side of the picture.

The main technique I used was horizontally leveling the horizon. I used the fence to break up the bottom third, the house as the main focal point in the middle(even though it goes against the rule of not putting the main subject right in the middle), and had the sky and tree line as the final. I also had leading lines from the points on the fence and the dirt walkway. The main textures I wanted to emphasis in my picture was the paneling on the house, and the smooth look of the fence. I also wanted to emphasis the sense of space by putting the fence closer to the viewer and different lines off the curves of the fence and the straight lines off the home and gravestones.

My photo's concept is to make the viewer question why a yellow home would be found in a graveyard and what kind of person would want to be living there. Overall I do like how my photo turned out as a whole. But if I redid it I would want to brighten the image a bit more and create more of a sense of space between the fence and the rest of the photo (because it just looks out of place to me).