My strongest technical aspect for this project would be how well cut the edges are done, when things were in contact with something else they become hard to separate. Examples of things that are hard to separate in particular would be the light sky on the lemurs' white fur or the lemurs digits from the log. The earths had a white background when they were inserted in and now none of the copies have any of the void background showing. The technical aspect that could be improved in this piece would be choosing a better theme for the background. The current theme ties in well enough, as recycling, and the image of the planet are related to nature as this animal is from.
The easiest part would be duplicating the layers. It is simple to select a layer, click layer, and hit duplicate layer. The background with the Earths and recycles symbols have multiple layers to it. Sometimes the layers had to be move forward or backward as not to overlap improperly. The hardest part is the same as my strongest part, being the erasing. If you erase too little, then the it creates too much of a distraction. The earths mentioned earlier are a good example of this. If you erase too much then you destroy the image you are meant to enhance.
The objective was to paint the polaroid's in the scenario that they have been thrown on the table, and how mine are laid out it looks like they have been thrown with a thrust motion. There also are multiple points of the animals are reaching out of the photos onto the background. And the background consists of "3 layers" with the recycle emblem, green color over that, and Earths in the middle of the emblems. There is air quotes because each layer is duplicated to span the entire frame. I have learned the difficulty of separating fur from skin and which to count as a border to the sky or other object. With this knowledge I would stray from my nature theme that I prefer to use for photoshop and use something else, like a president in a photo. It would be fun to have a background with eagles, the flag, or fireworks, there is room for imagination depending on who is chosen and what they have specifically done.
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Excellent visual and thematic connection between the foreground and background. Interesting choice of Polaroids. They have a natural quality about them that works well with this piece.
ReplyDeleteThank you, the white seemed too artificial compared to the ones I found. It is fortunate i was able to keep the blue and green that as from the original picture and keep them in my doctored photo.
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