Culture Clash

Purpose:

• To create a Clash of Cultures by creating your own Photo montage, combining images from Beijing, China and Yarmouth, Maine, USA;

• To further develop your Photoshop knowledge and skills;
• To create a “surreal” landscape by montaging a variety of photographs;

To know, use, and understand the Four Collage Techniques to in your Photo Montage: Juxtaposition/fragmentation, Point of View, Scale Change, Overlapping

The successes to this project for me were learning more about photoshop and the overall final product. Even though we had used photoshop before, I learned many more of the tools. I am really proud on how the final product turned out because I think it incorporates both cultures well. The difficulties would have to be where I decided to put everything, and erasing. I know it doesn’t have to be realistic, but I wanted to put everything somewhere that made some kind of sense. Also, erasing can be very frustrating and time consuming when you have to zoom in and get every little detail, while still making sure it doesn’t look messy and keeping straight edges.

Free Choice

When I created this image it was sunny out for the first time in a while. The sun was reflecting on my family's garden and bringing out the beautiful bright colors on all the flowers. I could smell the sweet and refreshing scent. In the background I heard the ocean crashing on the rocks. With all this I got a feeling of what's to come this summer and just the amazing Maine weather coming out. I love how thanks to the flash, the viewer can clearly see the specific patterns on each pedal and on the leaves. My favorite part is that the flower in the front is the main focus and the background is simplified.

Culture Clash Planning

Juxtaposition - The fact of two things being seen or close together with contrasting effort

Fragmentation - The storing of a file in separate areas of memory scattered throughout a hard disk

Point of View - The position from which someone or something is observed

Scale Change - The difference in something in how much it's moved or changed

Overlapping - Extend over so as to cover partly

Inspiring Digital Artists: David Revoy

Purpose:
To become familiar with 5 accomplished digital artists.
To see what is possible in the world of digital art.

Sally Mann, Famous Photographer's Movie

This is a link to my famous Photographer's movie, "Sally Mann".

Hobbies and Interests

When I went down to my brand new basement to take this photo, I was tripping over boxes and random things laying on the floor. I was used to everything being in a certain place and now I had to look for all of it which was a pain. I could feel the cold floor on my bare feet, smell the dust everywhere, and hear the footsteps of people walking upstairs on the ceiling. I finally found our foosball table and one of the things lying on top of it was the darts board. It was really dark because it was around 9 at night and the light switch wasn't working. I used the flash, and after a few attempts I got this photo and fell in love with it. I really like how the flash brightly shows all the colors and the small details, like the dust on the board and shadows on the picks.