Exam Piece One

Image 1

Before

After

Representation of relationships

For my relationship I chose nature and manmade, the image above shows that relationship as it shows a small plant growing out of the ground, but the ground is not dirt it is a concrete ground which shows the relationship as the ground is a manmade thing and nature has adapted to grow in such places in order to live.

Formal elements  

     There are a few formal elements in the image above, one of these being colour as there are two main colours which are both vibrant and noticeable, those being orange and green, but in my Photoshopped image the colour would be just green as that is the only colour other than the black and white backing. Another formal element would be form, the form in this picture both edited and none edited would be the flower and the depth of field is shallow so your eyes stay focused on the flower only, the edited one only emphasises this form as it's the only colour on the image. Texture plays a role but not a big one as it's only if you look at the floor or if the image is bigger that you see the texture on the ground and also on the leaves of the plant.

Compositional elements 

    Out of all of the compositional elements there are not that many. One of the few would be rule of thirds which plays a big part in the image my other image taken did not have this. Another one would be view point as the picture was taken at the view point of the plant. The depth of field also plays a pretty big part in this image as it is a shallow depth so it only focuses on what is at the front and blurs out the backing. The image also has a foreground and background.

Photoshop Process

  Though the photoshop process took a while it was a relatively easy, I started out with my image and then I duplicated the layer. I then selected the black and white tool and merged this layer down to the backgrounds copy, this only made the copy black and white instead of every layer. I then selected the rubber tool and zoomed in with the brush pretty small and began to rub out the black and white in that was on the plant, this took and while as the plant was so thing but tall so I had to keep it quite far in with the zoom and slowly rub making sure not to get the back ground. I zoomed out after I rubbed to see how far along I was and also to make sure even if I went slightly over the lines that you could not tell. 

Critique 

       I chose this image for my final one as I liked how the flower stood out and the angle it was shot at, I also liked the depth of field involved in the image and the formal elements that were involved and also because of the few compositional elements that are there were more than the other images taken. I think I could have positioned the camera a little better to have the plant more foreword facing instead of to the side. I also think I could have included more compositional elements to improve the picture. Overall I like this image but there are things I could have done to make it better.

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