Fetherston+Kelsey-Texture

Fetherston, Kelsey-Texture



Final Photo

One of the requirements for our Combined Textures photography assignment was to execute at least ten changes to our final image, hoping to better the overall image. To start off, I began my adjusting the color balance of my background image of the prairie to increase the levels of pinks and blues, in order to achieve a background that looked somewhat majestic yet spooky feeling in my image. Next I used the magic wand and eraser tools to remove Anna from her original image, in order to achieve my third image adjustment of adding Anna into my background image, hoping that she would be one of my main focal points in the image. For my fourth adjustment, I decided to duplicate Anna and place her new version in front her, while lowering her opacity and size, and my fifth adjustment was to duplicate Anna once more, putting her in front of the original once again, while making her even smaller and lowering her opacity even more. These fourth and fifth adjustments were meant to induce the spooky effect I was attempting, by having Anna’s spirit leaving her body and walking away. To contrast the spookiness of the image so far, I cropped one of the red flowers from its image for the sixth change, and then added it and constantly duplicated it in the image for the seventh change. I did this to bring some color and life to my image, while hoping to create a flower veil that followed the real Anna. Now for my eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh changes, I chose a different flower to crop and added and duplicated them to my finals, adding to the flower veil I was creating. Lastly, I found a picture of a hooded person that I took and cropper it out and put it into my final for my twelfth change, and I changed the opacity to bring back the spooky effect for my thirteenth change.

In my final photography, I think the three main compositional techniques I incorporated were rule of thirds, level horizon, and leading lines. Rule of thirds is when the focal point is not exactly in the center, helping to create a more interesting composition. Within my final image, I have part of the main focal point towards the bottom right corner, which I used in order to show the characterization of Anna, and how her spirit is walking away and towards the corner. Next I used level horizon, which is a somewhat straight line across the frame, helping the viewer know what is supposed to be viewed in the image. Again, my main focal point was mainly Anna, so I incorporated the level horizon more towards the bottom of the final image to keep the view interested in her story. Finally, I incorporated leading lines which are lines used to create interest in your image and lead them around. In my image, I used leading lines to lead the eyes of the viewer along with Anna’s spirit, hoping they will get the idea that again her characterization has developed and she is leaving her true self and obligations.

One of my favorite textures that was incorporated into my image was the clouds in the sky. I feel they look very soft and swift, but there is juxtaposition with their spookiness as well, and I really like that. Also, I used the bright and lively textured flowers as Anna’s veil that really played well together with their uneven edges contrasting with the soft petal look. Finally, to support the spooky and fantasy like theme of my image, the sharp and jagged edges of the trees and bushes in the background also add to the personality of the final image. Overall, my textures really contrasted well with each other, being I had soft, sharp, and jagged textures that all supported the spooky and majestical theme. Also, I used line with my elements of design, being that their are leading lines that really play an important role in leading your eyes along with Anna and her story, I feel that they were worked well for me.

When we were first told to just go out and shoot pictures of different textures, I was in a mindset of only shooting up close of textures, with no idea in mind. Although, by the third day when we were actually told our assignment, I was sort of panicking because I had absolutely no idea of a concept that could work with all of my images that I had already shot. But I finally found some that I felt could possibly work together and I came up with my idea. I loved my background image with the textured clouds in the sky, and I thought they looked both spooky and majestical. I then I had a good picture of Anna walking away that I felt would be good and mysterious to support my spooky effect. Finally, I wanted to create the story of Anna running away from her obligations (or the hooded figure) so I used the flowers as a veil on the original Anna, in order for the other Anna’s to be running away from something more meaningful.

Overall, I am extremely satisfied and proud of how I did in this project, being I really dug deep and found a more creative side of me for this project. I feel that it is neat and interesting how I was able to convey some sort of story along with my final piece, while incorporating interesting textures that contrasted with each other in great ways. If there was one thing I could change I might alter the flower veil a little and add more to the story of Anna running from her obligations. In the end, I really love how I was able to easily use ten changes to create a spooky and majestical final image that included great textures and compositional techniques.