Barwick+A+-Texture


 * **Write an explanation of the 10 changes you made to create a final Combined 3 Image. **
 * **Describe the texture you emphasized and any other elements and principles of design that you feel you highlighted. **

The texture I really focused on was the texture of the flowers, I really wanted to make sure that all the flowers //looked// real, considering one of the images is of fake flowers. Comparing the original images closely it is obvious (to me at least) that there are fake flowers and there are real flowers. I also had to make sure with the yellow flowers that they weren’t too different from the red flowers (in shine and color wise). I had originally shot that photo with the sun behind the flowers, while the other ones I had the sun (usually) behind me and shining onto the subject. The cross, and urn was also a hard texture to match. At first the urn was very overlooked, and the trees over powered it. After editing in levels I had been able to recolor and re-dramatizes the lighting how I was pleased. Elements and principals that I had utilized were texture,. And the compositional technique I used in my final was framing. I photoshopped the flowers to be in front of the whole image, and not really having a place to go- almost like floating at the bottom. I wanted to do this because I believe that without that- my final image would be very boring, and not colorful enough. In the individual photographs I mostly shot them in the middle, which is a big no- however with this assignment (combining photos) I thought it would be okay so that I had the whole subject to work with and not ½ of the subject being shot when I will unknowingly need it later. In the final photograph I used the rule of thirds with my main focal points; the urn being off to the left and the cross being off to the right. My concept for this projects was ‘Life in a Graveyard’, I was honestly hoping to be able to catch some pictures of spiders, or bees- I did manage to catch one of a bee however it was very blurry and didn’t match the color scheme that I had laid out with bold colors. So instead of using insects I used flowers. I had other flower pictures; however I wanted to stick to red flowers because when I see red I think of love, and by adding a graveyard to me makes me wonder who loved this person? I feel like I was pretty successful in completing the assignment, I feel like framing the photographs with flowers really worked for my piece. I would changed (or learn how to) flip the urn. I feel like the lighting with the shadow should be going the other way. Also originally the urn was supposed to be a picture of a Mother Mary stature and it was probably the worse of my photos however I still (with a better quality image) would have preferred the Mary stature instead of the urn. Overall I really liked this project, and my final piece other wise. It turned out better than I had imagined which is mainly because I expected all my photographs to be blurry.

The Ten Changes I made: 1) 2)  3)  4)  5)  6)  7)  8)  9)  10)  In the main photographs In the final photograph I focused on