Hansen-+Texture

Evan

Original 1

Original 2

Original 3

Final

10 Things I Changed. 1. The first thing I changed about my piece was cropping out one bunch or bundle of leaves from a photo. 2. Next I put them onto my background picture of the graveyard. 3. I then used the hue and saturation feature to give the leaves a fall or autumn vibe. 4. With the picture of Natalie I used the magic wand to select only her and cut her out of her original photo. 5. She was then put onto the background picture just as the leaf was. 6. The lighting in all three pictures was coming from different angles so I used the burn tool to help decrease that contrast. 7. I also used the burn tool because of the light on most of Natalie's body due to the shadows that were on the wrong side. 8. Natalie was then alined behind the gravestone because she had no legs in the original. 9. The leaves were put into the upper left corner to not block any of the main content but still give us that fall vibe. 10. The last thing that I modified in my photo was using the sharpen tool on the gravestone to make it readable.

I feel that my compositional technique in this project was framing. Here you see the two trees lining the outside of the frame and straight down the almost tunnel like path comes a perfectly positioned gravestone. A thing that I think I really improved on here was the lighting. It just so happened that the lighting in all three photos was different. I had to use the burn tool to its full potential in order to make the picture regain its realistic feel. At first during the process of making this I had the leaves smaller and green but they were starting to go unnoticed when I really wanted to emphasize them. I began to make them larger and it helped but it was still missing something. I then started playing with the hue and saturation which was a little hint given to me by a classmate. Upon reaching the orange, brown color I realized that it gave my photo the exact feel that I had been hoping for.