VOTE Poster Assignment

For this years student election, I chose to keep it simple to catch everyone's attention. I didn't want to have to avoid the four party colours to show an unfair or biased poster to any certain party. So I made it fair, I incorporated all four of the running party's colours in the maple leaves. I also thought it was very important to clearly get across that it's Ontario's student vote, so I made it bold and very big so everyone that walks by it can read what it says at just a quick glace. I also left all the rest if the poster white so that the pop of colour would catch viewers attention. I didn't put the year or date of the event on it because elections can sometimes run behind and I wanted to make this poster available to use for more than one occasion if necessary.

Macro Photos

Isolation

original

This particular dandelion stood out to me because of how perfect it was. It had almost all of the white fluff left on it and it was alone in an area filled with yellow dandelions. The design concept that this photo illustrates, is texture. The white fluff is very easily identified and very close so that you can see every detail of it, but still are able to tell what it is. First of all, I cropped the picture so that the dandelion was not in the middle of the page, for the Rule of Thirds, and to get all of the other distractions out. I wanted the dandelion to really stand out and be the focal point, so I increased the saturation and contrast to make it pop.

Together Forever  

original

These cute little flowers caught my attention because they popped out against the grass. Since these flowers look like they are meant to be together, I kept them together instead of cropping one out and getting a closer picture of one. This picture's concept shows balance, without having the focus on only one flower, the focal point in them both. I cropped the original picture a little closer to the white flowers, and decreased the saturation all the way, and I thought it made it look more interesting then the original.

Bee Happy

original

 Getting this picture was very lucky, I saw that the bee had landed on the one dandelion and quickly got this picture of it. The design concept in this picture is balance because of the smaller dandelion behind the one with the bee on it. I cropped the image a little different then usual, but still not having it in the center of the picture. I also increased the saturation to brighten the effects of the yellow petals. The bee is the focal point in this picture. I really like this picture because it has a very happy feel about it.

Photo Restoration

After

Before

After

This photo had a big rip right through the middle of the baby's face and was crinkled in many other places also. So first of all, I changed the photo to black and white and then cropped a bit off of the top and bottom to take out unnecessary fixes more easily. Next, I used the clone stamp for the rest of the photo to get it back to its original glory. The mouth was the trickiest part to fix, but I am happy with the outcome.

Before

Now, this photo wasn't as harshly damaged as the first but had a lot of wrinkles in the background and on the older girl. For this picture I also cropped a bit of the left side out and some of the bottom where the older girl's pants were very destroyed. I changed it to black and white and clone stamped the other blemishes out. The hardest part in this picture was the line going through the girl's face and body. I tried my best to get rid of it and it was as good as I could get it.

After

Before

This picture had the most damage done to it and was especially hard because of all the different patterns on the wallpaper, rug, and the little kid's outfit. Not only in the background was it badly damaged, but also in parts where lots of detail was, like on the side of the bike where the dots are and the hands and face of the child. First of all, I converted the photo to a different shade of black and white, then I cropped some wall off of the top of the picture and very little off of the bottom and right side. I used the clone stamp for the rest of the picture, paying careful attention to all of the little details. This picture took the longest time to complete.

Composite Image

Cats in the Big City

The concept of this image is a futuristic, space scene with cats ruling it. The techniques I used to complete this image was finding a picture of the Toronto skyline and taking out the sky and adding a nebula into the background. At first the city was too bright in contrast to the background, so I had to change the brightness of the city to make it look more realistic. I then added the cats for the cuteness factor, so that the futuristic Toronto is more friendly looking. This contains 7 different pictures in total. After I added the cats, I thought that it was pretty silly looking but then I decided to keep them because it makes the picture funnier and more interesting.

Composite Critique

Trouble at Home

Jim Kazanjian is the artist that made this photo. In his life time, Kazanjian went to the Art Center Collage of Design and the Kansas City Art Institute. He never takes any of his own photos but combines up to as many as 50 images from the internet to create his artwork. Jim has worked professionally as a commercial artist for the past 18 years in game production and television. With the knowledge of Kazanjian's work, he had taken several pictures to make this one. Using the bottom of a type of tractor and using an old creepy looking house on top of it he also probably added the smoke in the background and the dirty landscape too. He could have also taken little details from other various photos to add into the detail of the house, such as the woman standing in the door/window. He must have made the whole picture in black and white too and changed the contrast to add  shadows. I think that the result is pleasing in a spooky, dark sort of way. Jim did a very good job on putting all of the images together to make it look real and that it could be an actual thing. I like how it also kind of looks like it was seen through a telescope or binoculars by the rounded part of the top corners.

Digital Abstract

Colour Pop

The concept of this digital abstract piece was to show a contrast of colour and darkness. This image portrays energy and excitement with the bright pink focal point to catch attention. The colour palette I used were darker blues and greens and black with bright pink and purples and some more softer colours.

before

Comic Book Ready

This is an over paint image of Rihanna. I wanted to make her look like a cartoon or comic book character so I sectioned different parts and dropped colour in them.The background colour is a subtle green-yellow colour to have the complementary green and red in the photo. The theme in this image is very childish and bright.

Intensity

For my final digital image, I did another over paint, but of Zac Efron. I hoped to make his eyes the focal point so I made them a bright, but softer shade of blue. I decided to have a blue background too, so that the colour palette blended analogously. The emotion shown in this picture is definitely intensity, as though it looks like Zac is staring straight through you.

Poetry Cover

My cover shows that poetry is like a tree. Always growing and expanding and becoming more beautiful with age. The bright red colour of the leaves are very eye catching and makes people want to see what it's all about. I chose this picture because it's a very calming picture with no distractions in it. I think that our students would like this cover because it's bright, peaceful, and eye catching. It really portrays the beauty of poetry and nature.