Nelson+R-TEXTURE

Texture-Combine 3

FINAL

Texture is a very important aspect when photographing and creating photographs. In my final photo, I did a lot to emphasize the texture, along with change some other things as well. The concept of my photo has to deal with the fact that death is inevitable. We only have so much time on this earth before it is our time to go, in which is portrayed through the multiple grace stones and the clock head within the log. One of the first changes I made was cropping out my photos with the cropping tool so that I could apply them to the one I wanted to use as my background. In this case, I added the log, the clock head, and the four grave stones. Next, I warped the clock into the log so that it would look more realistic in a sense that the clock was actually apart of the log. The third change I made was adding shadows to the items in the photo by using the burn tool. I added shadows to the base of the gravestones, sort of slanting the shadow toward the right, in order to make it seem like they were actually sitting in the snow. I also added shadows to the large grave that is part of the background in order to make it look similar to the rest of the graves, along with the log, in which was done to make it seem like the log was sitting in the snow. Overall, I added shadow to give the items added a more realistic feel to the photo. The next changes I made had to deal with levels. I decided to change the levels of each added object before I changed the overall level of the photo. In this case, I changed the levels of the clock, background, and log separately, making them darker so that they seemed more realistic and would stand out compared to the white snow. This especially brought out the texture within the background. Next, I made the levels of each separate grave lighter so that they blended more against the white snow background. Next, I emphasized the shadow of the flower stems with the burn tool. In the original photo, they were very light and not evident so I decided to create shadows to show how they are sticking out of the ground. Next, I decided to adjust the curve of the log and the clock. After that, I adjusted the exposure on the background, clock and log to make it a little bit lighter. Then, I used the color balance to make the photo have a very subtle red tint. I did this in order to bring out the color of the flowers, also using a little bit of a yellow tint to blend things out more throughout the photo. Next, toned down the vibrancy of the photo to give it kind of an older look. I then erased around the edges of the graves so that they would blend in more with the snow and look more realistic in the picture. Lastly, I adjusted the overall exposure and level of the photo.