Assignment 1- Psychological Self-Portrait
Well, project 1 is completed.. for now. I would loved to have
created a piece that portrayed all the ideas and images that have
danced through my head as I imagined this work in progress.
Unfortunately, my technical skills are just beginning.
I chose the basic mood of the piece as being an urban setting
that I feel most alive and invigorated in. The photograph was
taken in NYC. I love the way the the tall buildings are accentuated
by the curve of the fish-eye lens. The clock in the scene is what I
feel the eye is most drawn to and so I feel this also greatly represents
my current state of mind , TIME, and the utter amazement of how fast
it moves in life! There's just never enough of it!
After using a quick selection mask, inverted, I cut out the plain looking
skyline and hoped to fill it in with possibly a very "contrast-y" scan.
I played around with many different background (skyline) effects to try
and highlight the overall mood and had a hard time choosing, but selected
as the final one a gradient black and white that I manipulated on the
layer until it was placed in the most appealing way.
While I feel over-all this is a piece that may represent my personality
in some way and I do like the way it looks for now, I can't help but
wish I could have created more.
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