Tremmel+Texture+Assignment

By Ben Tremmel
Using features and details from these first three images, the custom image at the very bottom of this page was formed which depicts what a appears to be a bench that has ben unattained to for what seems like a long time. Seeming as the main point of this assignment was to capture a sense of texture all of the images seen, were taken from a very close proximity with natural being aimed at the subject in order to capture every detail.



The image above is that of some type of lone plant; once I had taken this image the idea for the mixed texture image began to form. Specific portions of this image were taken as the entire plant as a whole was too large and drew to much attention to it in the mixed image, thus only some portions were used.



The image of snow was used purely as a form of texture that could be used for the final image, this is merely just a photo of my footstep. One thing that does bother me about this photo is the lighting, only one area is actually properly light and while one could say this could easily be fixed in editing I still find it somewhat annoying that this photo turned out the way it did.



This is an image of moss that was growing on the side of a tree, originally I intended to use this as my background image but was later decided to be used only as texture.

The image above is that of the contents that lay below the benches on the prairie pathway. Originally I intended to use this image as a texture source, but after taking a picture the previously mentioned plant I decided to use this as a background. The compositional technique level horizon was attempted, but came as more of an interesting point of view due to the angle of the camera.



While the overall goal of this assignment was to combine multiple images together in order to form texture, I decided to push this image further and create something that looked as though it could actually exist. Part of the flower has been toned severely and the other half only slightly in order to create the effect that this flower was under a bench or a much larger object, yet this is somewhat lost due to the slight unnatural appearance of the flower in comparison to other subjects in the photo. The moss was also severely toned down in lighting as well as saturation in order to blend in with the other subjects. Using the burn tool in Photoshop a shadow effect was made around the moss which furthered the effect of it being apart of the background. The snow was toned down in transparency, and its sides were darkened to a dark blue ice like color. The stamp tool was used on both the snow and the moss to spread out more texture and create a more natural feeling of the other elements. I am greatly satisfied by the appearance of this image as it accomplished the initial objective of combining texture but also partially accomplished the personal goal of creating a realistic possible nature setting image.

Photo Shop Tools Used

-Level Changing -Cropping -Blur Tool -Burn Tool -Stamp Tool -Background Eraser -Magic Wand Tool -Sharpen Tool -Smudge Tool -Saturation Decrease