B2+TextureZielsdorf


 * I love photos that show motion and tell a story. So, when starting this project, this was my main goal. The photos that I chose to use were a photo taken on the very first day of a stop sign, and three other photos: a photo of Ally laying on the ground, a photo of Bethany laying on the ground, and a photo of the grass in the prairie with the sun in the background. I loved the contrast of the red and blue in the stop sign photo, and after I decided that I wanted to use that picture, I took the photos of my friends looking like they were flying. The photo of grass was not really meant for anything, and it was kind of blurry. Though for the purposes of adding motion in the background of my final piece, it was perfect. The first change I made was to cut out Ally and Bethany and paste them into the stop sign photo. After they were positioned how I liked, I changed the brightness so it would look more realistic. Then I cut out the parts where they overlapped with the sign so it looked like they were flying behind it. After this, I changed the contrast, added a cooling filter, and posterized it. Then I added a filter that made it look mosaic, but I didn't like this. It took away from the texture and made everything seem off. So, I deleted that filter and then added a blue coloration with a low opacity. This made everything seem more blue and in the sky, so I thought it would be fitting to add a cloud filter. I erased the clouds that covered Ally and Bethany because it made them pop more. Finally, the grass picture was added and changed to a low opacity. My image really came together nicely, but there were a few things that I would have changed if I had more time. The compositional techniques I used were fill the frame and rule of thirds. The texture was shown through the grass and Ally and Bethany's hair. ||