Texture+Rolfson



The changes made for my final photo: 1. I copied and added a tree. 2. I deleted the water tower in the background. 3. I changed the sky to the grey and cloudy. 4. The burn tool was used to make the tree darker in some places to have the affect of shadows. 5. The dodge tool was used to lighten the tree where I felt like the shadows shouldn't be. 6. A shadow was copied and pasted on the side of the tree for a shadow to make it look more realistic. 7. The clone stamp was used to fix a mistake while copying the shadow. 8. The blur tool was used to blend the tree, and the shadow. 9. The smudge tool was used to blend the tree's leaves. 10. I changed the color hue for every, thing accept the tree and myself, and made the background grey. 11. The auto color was used to brighten the tree as well as myself.

Compositional techniques used: I believe framing was the compositional technique used because in the final picture the tree to the left, myself, the building in the right upper hand corner and the tree branches shown on the top of the picture seem to frame the red tree. The red tree is the main focus of the picture.

Textures that I emphasized: I tried to emphasize the..... -shadows -leaves of the trees -the skies clouds

Principles of my design: During creating my photograph I was trying to emphasize guidance in a lonely world. When somebody is lost, like myself, all they do is look for something or someone to follow so they don't feel alone. This concept can imply to anyone and that's why the idea is so significant. Everyone feels lonely at some point in their life. The tree symbolizes hope that's unseen and far away, you have to chase the idea of hope blindly till you find it. By just looking at a picture that depth isn't easily recognized and that's why everything in the background is grey while the tree illuminates providing a path for the human figure to follow to try and find that hope.

My success: Overall I am very pleased with my photograph I created. I love the concept because it reflects how I feel on the inside and that right there makes the picture not just a picture. I believe that other people can easily relate to the picture and feel what I felt while creating it. Things I think I could've improved on would probably be blending and that's about it. :)