Blog #4 Mini Art School Continued
Basic Cropping with a slight change in color: Yogi at the dog beach
Cropping with a border and focus: Cake Pops
Side Note: They're really easy to make! Bake any flavored cake of your choice, blend it with a container of frosting, roll into spheres, refrigerate, dip into melted wafers, refrigerate, and enjoy!
Okay back to Re-compositioning!
Cropping gone wrong: Both pre-images the flowers and dessert were cropped specifically away from the focus points-moving the center of attention. While I was cropping both images, I felt as though I was marketing one aspect (gradening tool and cherry) more than the whole scene. 
Life to Mundane Images: NFC Championship Game-San Francisco 49ers vs. Atlanta Falcons. The top picture is the image that I created through saturation, cropping, and refocusing. The focus onto the big screen, makes the fans in the background more visible in comparison to the pre-image which they are practically irrelevant. Go Niners!
Eliminating Busy Backgrounds: This is a picture of my DJing. Music by itself arouses motion. By having a clutter background, I beleive it takes away from that feeling that is why I chose to eliminate the "noisy" background. Also, pictures of people in motion are more favorable than poses.
Border Variation Exericse: One Image tranformed by six different borders
I'm not sure which border is my favorite. There is a tie between the pirate theme and white border. My least favorite is the film strip. I doubled the picture, because film includes more than one photo. But the image is not appealing at all. Also, the ink blot border does not add to the fresh water on the hot day feeling. From this exercises, I learned that not all borders can be used for all images. And some borders may take away from the overall theme of the design.
Color Echo: Creating a color palette from your image
This is one of my favorite pictures from my trip to South Korea. From the three activities, this one was my favorite! I felt this way because I was incorporating borders and font size/types from the previous weeks. The last image I included a plane to encourage booking your next vacation to South Korea!
Hi Anita,
ReplyDeleteI really liked what you did with the picture of your dog at the beach. The change of color really improved the photo. The border on the cake pop photo was a good idea; it broke up all of the white in and surrounding the photo nicely. With your next photo, I agree that it looks like you’re trying to sell the gardening tool. I think that the cherry picture is a very good example of cropping gone wrong. It is not clear what the viewer should be focusing on. You mentioned it could be the cherry, I think it could also be an ad for the sesame seeds. For your sports arena picture, I like what you did with the cropping and focusing. But on the other hand, I think the saturation made the photo look somewhat washed out or aged.
For your boarder exercise, I also liked the white boarder the best. I feel like it kept the picture looking fresh and did not take over the focus of the picture. I also liked the black boarder but I felt like it didn’t hold the same light, airy, and outdoorsy feeling that the both picture and white boarder represent. I think that the first and last designs didn’t work well because they did not go with the theme. Finally, although the pirate boarder did not clash with the colors or theme of the photo, I do think that it overwhelms the photo and captures my focus more than it should as the boarder.
Overall, I think you did a great job capturing the good and bad versions of boarders and cropping in design.
-Hollyn