Shake it Like a Polaroid Picture

Original photo,
Image he nurses from the series Silent Hill

My polaroid Picture!

I believe the strongest aspect to my work is providing a stark contrast between the background and the image in the polaroids. The original picture is very morbid and dark, but the background is a lot brighter and has this pop to it. The cut on some of the body parts are kind of bad. Specifically the cut on the right nurse's head is not precise. The good thing is that it isn't very noticible from afar.

The easiest part of the activity was probably picking a background color. I knew I wanted something bright, and sorta feminine, so it could provide a good contrast from the original image. The most difficult part was trying to plan the rest of the background. It always felt empty, and it still does. I don't feel like there is much I could have added though.

I did a lot of stuff to demonstrate the objective of creating the illusion of scattered polaroids on a table that create one image, with several elements breaking the plain. I used the polaroids to frame the main subjects of the image, and used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the rest of the image. I broke the plain 4 separate times, which I accomplished this by using a combination of the eraser tool and the lasso tool. For the background, I used a gradient to alter the color to a hot pink. For the objects, I used the lasso tool to cut them out from their background and then used a filter to give it this green affect. I'm pretty happy with my project and wouldn't want to change much about it. I like the picture I chose and wouldn't pick another image.

Photography4- Evan Motta, Beauty Queen

Before the Makeover!

After the Makeover!

Welcome to the beauty contest, wheres there is only one contestant, EVAN MOTTA! I am very proud that I was able to transform Evan's face into a fabulous drag queen. I put a rosy pink foundation on him, then some pink blush. These additions really sell the transformation. I think my whitening process didn't go as planned. I don't see much of a difference in the eye color. How I perceive the whiteness may be because of it's contrast with Evan's new skin tone. 

The easiest part of the activity was covering up most of his freckles. It was just a calming process of having to look at Evan's face. It was a little awkward, but whatevs. The most difficult part of the project was deciding on what skin foundation to use. I wanted to go with this muddy green at first, then a light blue (which I used for the background person). 

I displayed the objective by using the healing tool to cover up Evan's freckles. I then fixed up some parts of his face, like adding some mustache shade, and fixing up his lack of eyebrow hair in certain spots. I then added in a foundation, then makeup. I then added some red to glossing up his lips. The last thing I did was color burn his hair. If I could do this project again, I would try and figure out a different way to change the eye color. I'm kind of glad I couldn't do it though, because the whitening effect makes an artificial look; which is something I would like to steer away from.

Desaturated Images and Folk

My Original Photo










My Saturated Photo













I believe my strongest aspect of my photo is how the flower is yellow. The yellow look very nice against the saturated background. I don't believe there is much I could improve on this project, except maybe this artist reflection.

This art project was pretty easy. It took me like 5 minutes. If I had to pick one difficult thing, it was probably color the flower. It took me 2 minutes and I had to struggle trying to color inside the lines.

I demonstrated the objective by desaturating the image, and then coloring in the flower. If I could do this project again, I would probably color  the flower a different type of yellow, like mustard yellow.