Megan+Sunderlage+Texture+Combine+3

10 Changes:

 * 1) I cut out the sky behind the trees and placed it on top of the picture of snow as a replacement sky.
 * 2) I added a filter to the tree cut out layer so that the colors would become brighter and more accentuated.
 * 3) I cut out the grave from the rest of the picture and added it to the main picture.
 * 4) I warped the perspective of the grave, making the over all perspective of the picture seem more similar and natural.
 * 5) I cut out moss from 3 other pictures and added them to the main picture.
 * 6) I rotated the pictures of moss, sized them appropriately, and erased part of the cut outs to fit the grave.
 * 7) I lowered the opacity of each moss layer so that it looked more natural on the grave, and lightly erased the edges with a lowered opacity eraser so that there wasn't a sharp edge to the cut outs.
 * 8) I used the burn tool to make the lighting of the grave darker, creating more over all lighting unity on my picture.
 * 9) I cut out portions of bark from another picture and added them behind the grave to create a middle ground and add depth.
 * 10) I added a filter to the entire image; a spotlight filter that made the edges darker and the center of the image slightly lighter.

Rule of Thirds
- I used the rule of thirds in my image by filling the bottom two thirds with my main subject, the grave. I filled the bottom third of the grid with the middle ground- the bark cut outs.

Framing
- I incorporated framing by using the branches of the trees to surround the grave. The bark cut outs also help surround the sides of the image.

Leading Lines
- The trees and the bark connect at points, leading the eye completely around my image. Some of the branches on the trees and the bark even lead to the center of the image, leading the eye straight to the grave.

The texture I emphasized was all of the moss on the grave, the bark in the middle ground and on the trees in the background, and the snow in the background. I incorporated emphasis by making the grave the biggest part of the image in order to lead the eye immediately there. I also added movement through the branches and tree bark in order to lead your eye throughout my entire photo (leading lines). I also incorporated dark (shades) cool colors to create a color scheme that feels cold, sad, and eerie.

I wanted to create an image that gave off an eerie, surreal vibe. Once I found out we were going on a photo shoot at the grave yard, I knew I wanted to make my project focused around one of the graves. The dark, bare trees perfectly give off the creepy vibe I was aiming for, since there is just something unsettling about graveyards in the dark, with bare trees in cold. My image mainly contains cool and dark colors, which I wanted to symbolize the sadness that surrounded the grave I had as my subject.

I think that I was mostly successful with what I created for this assignment. I feel like out of all of the images I had, what I created was a pretty cool and creative image that involved plenty of changes made to the final image. If there were any changes that I would've made, I think that I would have changed the subject of most of my photos. When I was focusing on 'texture' pictures, I was focusing on close up images of subjects with lots of texture. When I found out what the actual assignment was, to combine 3 images and create a new piece, I felt I didn't have many images that would be good to combine, ones that had a zoomed out, main subject. However, I still had just enough photos to pick from that had a main subject, like the picture I used of the grave, to create a foreground, a middle ground, and a background.