Exam Piece Four

Image Four

Before

After

Representation of relationship

The images above show the relationship between nature and manmade, I think this shows that relationship because it is a single plant out in the middle of a deserted concrete area growing though the ground which is a manmade thing. It also shows plants in the background over manmade things such as the fence and more of the concrete ground.

Formal elements

There are a range of formal elements in the images above, for example you have texture from the ground which has a big part in the image and it is in focus, another element would be form as the thing in focus is the plant and everything else is out of focus because of the shallow depth of field. Colour plays a big part in all of the images I have taken this one is no different with the colour of the plant being made more vibrant in the second image but also the background is darker and the colours are much duller than the first image. The image is also an example of the element of space the plant is at the start of the image just entering the space of the image.

Compositional elements 

The conventional elements in the image include the rule of thirds, which is after I edited it by using crop to make the rule of thirds more obvious to make the image better. Another compositional element would be view point which is similar to my other images as I got down on the ground to get the image from the view point of the plant. Depth of field much like my other images is a shallow depth so it focuses more on the foreground and the background is the plants in the background.

Photoshop Process 

The process for this image is pretty straight forward, I first cropped it to the size I desired by using the crop tool and then I used the sponge tool to dull out the colours and the rubber tool to add some colour back into the plant as it was washed out.

Critique

I feel like this image could have been taken better, I feel like I could have gotten lower to the ground to have the image straighter where the plant is involved or gotten closer to the image, that way I would not have had to crop it so much to make it how I wanted it to be. I feel like though I like this image I should of just tried more to make it how I imagined it to be.

Basic information on the image taken