Kyte,+Sydney+Texture+Combined

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In my texture combined project I made 14 changes to my photos. The first thing I did was change the contrast of my background image to 10 and the brightness to -19. This made the background look darker just like I wanted it to because I wanted the environment around Katie to look darker and more like there was a storm. However, on the day I took that picture there was more sun so I needed to make it look like it was darker and stormier outside. The next thing I did was erasing the background from the picture of Katie because I just wanted her and I wanted her to be on my stormy edited background image. I then put the picture of just Katie onto the background. Next, I erased the background from the picture I took of the flower. I made sure to do this in extreme detail because there were a lot of small pieces sticking out of the flower and I wanted to make sure that I got almost the exact shape of the flower without getting any of the background of the picture. Next, I flipped the flower vertically so that I could make it look like Katie was using it as an umbrella. Next, I changed the brightness of Katie to -20. I did this because in the original image I thought that she looked slightly too bright for the edits I made to the background and she didn’t blend with it as well. After putting Katie on the background and having the flower image looking like an umbrella, I didn’t exactly like how the flower looked because it was slightly slanted. To fix this I rotated the flower so it would be more straight and look more like an umbrella. After doing this I thought that the flower also looked too bright for the rest of my project so I changed the contrast of the flower picture to -15 and the brightness to -6. This made the flower darker and to match the background better. I had everything I initially planned on having in my project, in my project but I thought that it didn’t have the storm effect that I was looking for so I added some leaves blowing around in the wind. To do this I erased the background from a picture I took of leaves to focus in on one leaf. I then made the leaf picture smaller and changed the brightness to -84 and the contrast to -31. This made the lead match the rest of the picture also and made it look like more of a storm. Lastly, I made multiple copies of the leaf picture, rotated and flipped them, and moved them all around the background picture. Below is a list of all the edits I made.
 * Write an explanation of the 10 changes you made to create a final Combined 3 Image. **
 * 1) Changed contrast of background picture to 10
 * 2) Changed brightness of background picture to -19
 * 3) Erased background from picture of Katie
 * 4) Erased background from flower picture
 * 5) Flipped flower vertically
 * 6) Changed brightness of Katie to -20
 * 7) Rotated flower picture
 * 8) Changed contrast of flower picture to -15
 * 9) Changed brightness of flower picture to -6
 * 10) Erased background of leaf picture
 * 11) Made leaf picture smaller
 * 12) Changed brightness of leaf picture to -84
 * 13) Changed contrast of lead picture to -31
 * 14) Made multiple copies of leaf picture and flipped and rotated the copies

In my final combined photograph, the compositional techniques I used were rule of thirds, leading lines and framing. I used rule of thirds by putting Katie right in the middle of the picture because I wanted her to be the first thing that people look at. I used leading lines with the path in the prairie which also lead your eyes to Katie. Lastly, framing was slightly used because the path that Katie is on has very short grass but everything around her has longer grass or trees so it frames her- the subject of the photograph.
 * Explain which compositional technique(s) you used in the main photograph final combined photograph. **

Describe the texture you emphasized and any other elements and principles of design that you feel you highlighted.
I think that the texture that I emphasized in my project was a rough texture. I think I did this with the grass of the prairie, the flowers and the trees. I wanted my project to be taken more seriously and I think that the rougher textures I used helped me with that a lot. As for elements and principles of design, I think I highlighted balance and colors(and obviously texture). I used balance in my project because there isn’t one part of my picture that has more than another part and it all feels very balanced to me. Also, I think that I used colors because I wanted my project to look darker and I did this using colors.

Explain your concept for this project.
I made this project because I saw one like it on a website we were showed. It was a girl who was holding a flower over her head and it reminded me of an umbrella so I thought that I would do something like it but change it. I made mine look a lot like a storm and that Katie was actually using the flower as an umbrella to protect herself from something. Overall, I did my project like this because I thought it would be interesting to use something from nature to protect oneself from nature and it would create an interest in the photograph.

Explain how successful you feel you were with the assignment and any changes you would consider for next time.
I thought that I was successful with my project considering that it was the first project we did. I thought that I did well at making sure that when I erased certain parts of pictures, that I did it in very good detail. For example, when I just wanted the flower and nothing else, I spent a lot of time making sure I got every curve of the flower that I wanted and it looked how I wanted it to. However, I thought that I could have done better at making my pictures look more blended together so they looked more like they weren’t edited and that they were one picture. However, considering this was the first project I think I did pretty well, and I do think I will get a lot better at it.