Woyach+B-Texture

10+ Changes
 * 1)  I made my background image the stuffed bear sitting on the cross.
 * 2)  I cropped the words from another image stating “Finally with you” and pasted it on the cross to make it look like it was apart of the cross.
 * 3)  I then warped those words since I took the photo of the cross at an angle.
 * 4)  I then used color balance to change the color of the font so it blended in with the photo.
 * 5)  I then cropped a photo of a not so lively flower, and pasted two images of the same flower next to the cross to make it look like they were sitting in front of the grave.
 * 6)  I also changed the color balance of those flowers to add the effect as if it were apart of the photo.
 * 7)  I then lightly erased the areas around the sunlight in 2 other photos I took, and then pasted those photos on top of eachother and lowered the transparency so they didn’t stick out in the photo.
 * 8)  I then cropped the face of a statue of Mary from a photo I took and then pasted it in the middle of the sunlight to emphasize that she was watching over.
 * 9)  I then lowered the transparency of that photo so it blended in with the sunlight.
 * 10)  With another photo I took of my friend Starline and cropped her face and pasted on to the corner of the background.
 * 11)  I then lowered the transparency to make it seem like she was the spirit buried below the cross.
 * 12)  I also changed the color balance of it and increased the size of it to make it fill the empty space of the background.
 * 13) Lastly, I took an image of a tree that I took and layered that over my background and simply lowered the transparency to make the entire image look different since now the image had lines coming through the background which I liked since it looked interesting.

Compositional Techniques

For my compositional techniques I used the cross and bear as the main focus of my collage, therefore I made sure they were placed in the center of the it so the viewers eyes would go straight to it. I then added other photos like the sun, my friend Starline, and the flowers to fill in all the empty space of the photo. For example, when i originally pasted Starline’s head onto the collage it was too small, therefore I increased the size of her head to it would fill in all the empty space around her. I also increased the size of the flowers and placed them further from the cross since it also filled in the empty space around them. Lastly, I included the sunlight and Mary into the top left corner of my photo since that was the last bit of empty space I needed to fill and I felt as if those images fit well with my concept and the photos in the collage.