Libowsky+J+-+Texture



“You don't take a photograph, you make it,” ― Ansel Adams. Texture is the one thing that creates a quality photo. Whatever type of surface that texture appears as, it’s job is to intrigue the viewer. During the Texture Combine 3 assignment, we were allotted four classes to take pictures. Two classes were about taking pictures in the prairie, one was photographing in the cemetery, and the other was capturing still life inside the art room. We were reminded to always think about the exposure triangle, and compositional techniques. Those compositional techniques were later brought into the final image created with Photoshop. Rule of thirds was an important one -- never center your imagine unless for a good reason. Asymmetrical balance was also incorporated with the subjects weighing more to the left of the canvas. The main subject in my final photograph is off to the right accompanied by other tombstones to the left, creating a rule of thirds. The concept of the overall piece is about the life celebrated with death. Instead of people wanting to forget they create monuments recognizing what the person lived for along with the memories they shared. Every grave tells a story of a complete person’s life. Just by the different textures of the graves there is a story. Some are smooth, others are extremely rough and jagged. This attempt to show the contrast between graves was constructed in the final using the grave texture against grass, trees, and eachother. The stacking and layering of graves created elements in design, such as space, design, and form. Steps that were used to create the finished graphic were cropping the gravestone, adjusting the exposure, blending using erasing, recolouring, create shadows using the paintbrush tool, add in more graves, adjust the brightness, offset, and exposure, blend again, change levels in saturation, hue, colour balance, and shadows/highlights. If I were to redo the project, I would consider adding more lively of subjects, like people. Overall the finished photo demonstrates the ability that I contain within photo editing and taking abilities at this point.