Midterm Composition #1

The background for this image comes from my friend's camera. He calls himself a "landscape photographer" because he has a fancy camera. Nonetheless, I liked how modern it looks which is when the dinosaur came into place. Obviously, I did not take a picture of the dinosaur, I found it on the computer on some random website. The girl that looks scared of the monster is a friend of a friend. Her picture comes directly from Facebook. The tools I used for this were eraser (a lot of eraser) the magic wand tool on my subjects and the blur and smudge tool.

Before and After

I decided to choose this picture to fix. It comes from my iPhone and was taken during the snow storm. I fixed it with Brightness and Contrast among other options that I can't remember at the moment.

Composition #2

So here's my second composition. The background is not of TCNJ, it was taken somewhere else. This time around, I felt a bit more comfortable with using Photoshop and some of the tools to put the pictures together. Still a bit frustrating, but I'm getting there. I tried to make the dinosaur and the background blend in a little better, because i realized that the dinosaur is very sharp compared to the background. Overall, I like how this turned out.

Artists Summary

After looking through each of the four artist's works, I found myself liking Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman's pieces. The reason I like Jeff Wall is because of how natural and realistic his photos are. They remind me of the simple every day things we encounter, but he has a way of twisting them around and making them more appealing.I liked Cindy Sherman's work because it centers itself around a certain style of the 70's decade. It's not something that is seem very often. Teun Hocks's style reminded me a bit of Salvador Dali. A lot of his pictures have a surreal feel to them because of what is going on, but the way that he is able to put the images together is incredible. Gregory Crew reminds me of Jeff Wall a bit. They both have somewhat the same sense of style, when it comes to picking photographs that capture real moments in life.

Putting Two Pics Together

The background is a picture that I took walking towards Forcina. The cat belongs to my friend, who decided to take a picture of it with my camera. Didn't ever really think the cat would ever come in handy.

Photoshop Picture

Alright, so this was the first time I have ever used Photoshop. It was tricky at first, trying to draw something with a mouse, so I decided to just make random lines everywhere and random circles here and there as I was playing around with the tools. I have no idea how this picture ended up being my "final creation". The smudge tool was my best friend towards the end because I liked how it worked and how it made certain colors look as they blended in together. So yeah, i'll call it a sunset/sunrise. haha.

Picture

This picture was taken in the stairs in Centennial with my iPhone. I like the way it shows the lines and planes so simply. The bricks, railing and the stairs are pretty neat to look at from the angle the picture was taken.