Willig+Texture



10 things that i changed are ...

1. I opened up my original background photo, and used it as my “background” image for my whole project. 2. I changed the contrast in the background images, making it brighter and more dramatic. 3. I brought in a frozen raindrop, one of my earrings, an angel statue, and a piece of rope. 4. I had to cut them out of their original photos before i could bring them into mine, using mainly the quick selection tool. 5. With two of the images, the raindrop and the earring, I burnt them to make them seem darker. 6. Next, I brought in a piece of rope,and made it darker. I made the angel statue and the rope darker by messing with the switch on the top right of the screen, under the color tab. 7. I blurred the main branch, the branch that is in the middle of the whole picture. 8. I rotated the frozen rain drop, and my earring so that they would look, and fit better in the picture, and make it look like they actually belong there. 9. I had to shrink the rope, and the statue, so they are the correct size for this image. 10. I made my earring, and my frozen raindrop larger, so they don’t just fit within the size of the picture, but also so they would stand out a little bit more.

Final ...

For compositional techniques, i used fill the frame, and leading lines. For filling the frame, i used the size on y background picture to fill the entire frame, and placed my pictures in. For leading lines, there are the branches right in the middle of the photograph that draw your eyes in all different directions.

A big thing that i played around with was the color. I changed the color on every single color. Also, contrast. I changed the contrast in the original background picture. Also, the different lines, and their shapes. There is the really vivid tree branch that was blurred, and going across the whole entire top portion of the picture. The branch was not blurred to resemble movement though. There is also a lot of texture in this picture, from the smoothed tree branch, to the rugged moss, and pointed leaves, all around the crisp and clean lines of the pictures that i brought in. Especially the angel statue.

Some things that i would like to change for next time, would be the way i took out my original pictures. That took a while to do, and they really are not that different. Also, the earring turned out kind of messy. Also, I would like to get the colors right on all of my images. The angel to me is kind of darker than the image, and the raindrop and the earring stand out a lot, and I’m not sure if that is a good or bad thing. Next time, i would just like to make one cohesive piece.