Esser+TEsture

Jessica Esser Mrs.Bjork 3 October 2016 Photo 1 Graveyard Adventures Fog surrounded us, as the spirits were going to rest the students were just heading out. With camera’s ready the students embarked to a sacred ground where the spirits reside. Throughout my journey in the graveyard, I found myself drawn to the little angels. This picture in particular really intrigued me. Due to its high contrast between the black headstone and the white angel and cobweb. Also the natural lines from the web create really cool leading lines. To enhance the natural effects and capture the essence better, I combined the picture with very white flowers (used copy paste and lasso), then flipped them 180 degrees. Followed by making the opacity very light. And finally changing the Levels to increase the whites. For the Words I copied and pasted them, used the lasso tool and the eraser. I turned the opacity down but then changed the levels and saturation to make the letters stand out but also look ghostly. For the last step I took the angel and copied and pasted it twice. To the first copy I made it highly contrasted using levels. And the second one I used the opacity again making it ghostly and then proceeded to warp it causing a “glitch” effect. To finalize it, I did an overall brightening of the picture and a saturation lowering. Overall I feel like I told the story of someone who passed, through my different textures of the cold stone of the angel, to the soft white and the harshly carved words. I feel like there's strong contrast because of the very whites and very black. Also space relationships between the figure and the headstones. Theres also good line in the web which creates movement because it makes your eye off the page. I really like how the tool warping works and I'm excited to stretch my photos in the future even further.