Scary Effects

My favorite project from the two is my alien. I feel that i could have done better with the vampire, especially with the blood around the mouth; I feel like i exaggerated the amount of blood i put. Although I feel like i could do some things to make the alien look better, i'm happy with how the project turned out. Some of the new tools that i used on the alien project was the pen and the clone stamp tool. The pen tool is pretty much self-explanatory, but i did have trouble trying to get a smooth line the first couple of times. I didn't really have any trouble with the clone stamp. The clone stamp is going to be really helpful in the future because with it i am able to edit out things that i do not want to be in a photograph. The careers that come to mind that would use tools like these are the photographers that work on photos that go in magazines, a professional photographers for models, or someone that works with advertisements.

Critique

Off into the middle of the ocean, there is a desolate man building a bridge to the barely visible shoreline far off into the distance. With the hammer in his left hand and the planks of wood strapped into his back, the man is determined to make his way across the dreary sea. The pathway helps emphasize the man and the concentric rings of water help keep the man as the focal point. There are a lot of grays in the photograph, which makes the photograph give a somber mood. The vast sea also helps feed the empty feeling that is portrayed.
This photograph could help symbolize the idea that everyone is trying to cut out a path for themselves in life. Another interpretation could be to show that the man is different and unique from everyone else, because if everyone was the same, and they were setting the foundations of their life, they would be there with the man. The man is by himself making the path for his life, showing how unique everyone's life is. The man is not yet finished building the bridge, and that signifies that one will always be working towards making their life stable. The fact that the path the man is building isn't straight could represent the twists and turns that life has.

Photographic Effects

Out of all of the photoshop tricks that we have learned the past few days, I really liked Cross-Process. It gives the photograph a really cool effect that makes it seem like something surreal because of the high saturation levels.

I would like to work on the blow out process a little bit more, only because I didn't choose a good photo for the trick and wasn't very successful with it the first time.

I really liked the adjustments layers. Though I was absent when we went over them in class, they are still something that I would like to get more familiar with. Because I was just experimenting with the adjustment layers, I think that if I keep playing around with them, I'll begin to get a grasp on how to use them.