Starich.M-+Texture



10 Changes My first change was the brightness/contrast of the image. I wanted to add more light to the photo and define the lightness and darkness to create the effect of the summer sun during fall. Then I added vibrance to add more of the previous stated effect. After I added this, it reminded me of a Florida forest. The vibrance of the colors makes them highlight the darker parts of the overall photo. I loved the way this looked, but it needed something more, so I added more brightness and contrast. This was a huge improvement, because of the autumn essence it had with the bright and concentrated colors against brown mucky wood and dying leaves. After adding the flowers (which are the off white curls on the bark), I burned their colors to make them look soaked and moist of the air and nature. By adding this, my goal for a scene of changing seasons looks more obvious. The burnt colors of the flower/muck look as if it's losing it's life in the middle of fall, but still with the warm weather. Following with the disoriented colors, I used to sponge tool to get the life out of the colors that give the feeling of winter. This is where that yellow-gray-blueish type of hue comes from. With the smaller sized branch to the upper left and the orange and yellow/green moss looking material on it, I knew it would correlate and compliment the theme. Originally, I had the white flower material in the middle with the animal fur ball next to it. Both of these shouldn't have been next to each other so I added more of them and burned/sponged the colors more. Just by these changes, the perspective had changed as well. Before it appeared like as if it had been placed and structured manually. While as after the moving of the one image, I had created a perspective of looking down in a diagonal direction. Afterwards, I lightly erased parts of where there were obvious straight lines revealing where two pictures ended. When I adjusted the brush size and the transparency of the erased parts, it appeared more natural. Finally, I brightened parts of the final image in order to create the illusion of a sun shining down. In the middle of the photo is the brightest spot, I thought since I used the rule of thirds, the brightening of this spot will blend the three other main aspects of the photo better than if there were more darker spots. I chose the middle to brighten specifically because when I used the burning/sponge tools on the flower like objects I used it more to the right side of each of them to give the impression of the sun shining down from the right. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ For my final photo, I attempted to use the compositional techniques of leading lines, rule of thirds, and with texture. Every branch shown on the image above constructs the photo in a way where your eyes will follow them for an intended purpose. My intended purpose for these sticks was whichever one you looked at, they lead to another part of the photo as well as they intersect through the rule of thirds that I demonstrated. Especially on the bark of the bigger tree to the right side, the lines are not straight, but they lead to the flower like object. Most importantly, texture was my main focus. I used many different types of texture examples for my final photo. The hard and curvy lines of the bark, moss, leaves, animal fur, and the flower like object are all different examples. My goal for incorporating so many different types was to give the theme of bright nature. By having the different types of texture nature gives to us we can do so many wonderful things with them, including using them for a photography project.

Texture was a very big detail for me in this photo. I used more hard and mossy type texture examples in my photos along with a smooth texture and a curvy texture to emphasize the ability of nature. Space is demonstrated by the size of the two stick images more so to the left side of the photo by their size. Originally they were much smaller, but I increased their sizes to fit the place I wanted them to go to further support my perspective I intended.

To sum up my concept for this project, nature is filled with surprises with what it brings us. There are a million different ways I could have constructed this photo, even with other photos, and that's the beauty within my work displayed above. She has meaning and intent and a purpose to others by being a symbol of my hard work and natures as well. I believe this image and the way I changed the overall color enhancement says more about the way colors are created and conveyed than meeting a standard. Individually, every image I photographed to create my final is beautiful and unique. That being, I am pleased with my work, I am proud of it, and I believe I did a great job of learning how to use a DSL camera as well as the photoshop bridge app. In order to further better my work for the future, I would spend more time experimenting with what the Adobe Photoshop app is capable of and the features it has. I probably could've used a larger number of changes, and a wider variety of them too. Mostly, my goal for next time is to shoot more photos that are in one category of texture, one type of texture to explain my use of in order to fully explain my concept.