Student Vote Poster Assignment

Student Vote Poster

Original

      For this assignment I was inspired to do a peace symbol with my hands from the poster I have bellow, because I liked the concept of how your vote can create peace for our country by choosing the right representative to lead our government. In the poster that was my inspiration the hand is depicted through a sketch, so I wanted to modify that idea by taking a photo of an actual hand and change it into that same kind of black and white.
   

Inspiration

     My concept, as I mentioned above, is that each vote can make a difference towards a peaceful and just province. I used bold uppercase letters to grab the viewers attention, as well as the the slanted white strips and the focal point of the large peace sign which makes out the word vote. Vote is the largest word in my poster because my goal is to encourage students to vote for someone, above everything else. I chose to keep the entire poster in black and white because it stands out as being bold, but also represents balance and power that connects to the election because my poster is meant to encourage voting but not for any specific party. I decided to add the Ontario symbol because it reminds the viewers that they are voting for Ontario's representatives, not Canada's government, and used this specific font for all the words in my poster because it reminded me of Vogue which I thought would appeal to the teen audience my poster's trying to draw attention to.

Macro Photography

Rosebud of White
Texture

Before B&W

Original

      For my first image I took this photo of a rose because of the many interpretations of what roses symbolizes, providing me many options for editing to create a photograph with depth and meaning.

      I cropped the picture in closer to the rose which is in focus using the rule of thirds composition, keeping the focal point off centre, because I wanted to remove the rose that was out of focus to remove distractions from the focal point. I kept the leaf which was out of focus though because I liked the depth it added to the photograph and how it draws the viewers attention into the focused rose. 

           I adjusted the contrast and saturation of the image to take away distractions of the wall in the background but then decided the photo was oversaturated and no longer crisp, so I removed the saturation of the image completely leaving a black and white photograph. I think the black and white creates a more powerful image because there is no distractions from the bright colors.

     My concept for this image is love and loss because the rose is often interpreted as a symbol of love, but the black and white symbolizes emptiness and unhappiness. The image's design element is texture because there is various rough and soft textures in the photo, such as the soft rose petals and the rough texture of the leaves and thorns.

Serenity
Color

Original

     For my second image I took a picture of this daisy but the photo was taken in a very wide crop, so the first thing I did was crop it very tight to the flower using the rule of thirds to keep the focal point to the left of the image. Then I adjusted the sharpness and contrast of the picture so that all the details in the petals and the stamen would really pop and draw attention. After I used the clone stamp tool to remove small specs and imperfections from the petals, and used a separate layer to blur the background with the gaussian blur filter. Finally I adjusted the saturation of the photo to brighten the colours further.

     I decided this image's design was color because of the vibrant contrast of whites, yellows, and greens that the viewer notices right away. I think the colours, in combination with the cropping using the rule of thirds makes this photo stand out in particular because of that pop.

In Bloom
Lines

     For my final image I chose this because it is especially macro because of the tight crop. I cropped the photo this far in because I found with the original there was no on point for the viewer to focus on where as with the new cropping the focal point is the stamens poking out of the beautiful yellow blossom.  I also adjusted the contrast, brightness, and saturation. Finally I removed specs from the petals from this flower in the bloom as well.

Original

    I chose lines to be the design element in this photo because of the lines in the stamens which are the focal point of the image.

Photo Restoration

Restoration

Original

     I chose this photo, option #3, because I thought the tears and bends in the photograph would be quite a challenge to restore.
     I started restoring the image of the baby by changing the image to black and white. By removing the saturation in the sepia tones it took away the vintage appear to the photo and I could then start retouching and fixing the tears and abrasions in the picture.
     I then created a new layer to begin restoring the image by sampling a near by area of the tear along the baby's mouth and clone stamping away the rip. I removed this tear first because it was the largest imperfection in the photo, so tackling the largest task first was a priority for me.
     With another layer I repeated the process of sampling a near by area and clone stamping imperfections and tears or bends out of the image along the baby's arms, shirt, and face. I sampled near by areas to clone stamp the abrasions out because it replicates the skin or clothing tone and texture the best for that specific spot.
     Finally, I clone stamped and painted with grey tones the background and foreground beneath the baby's arms almost entirely out to remove the remaining stains, tears, and bends and adjusted the lighting and contrast to brighten the image.
     Overall, I am fairly happy with my results, especially in the difficult task to restore the baby's mouth, but I was disappointed to see that my final restoration does not show up in true black and white tones on this website.


   

Composite Images

Voyager

     For this assignment I really wanted to create depth and portray emotion through my images as opposed to having a more contemporary composite image which throws many different pieces together that don't always have real significance to the concept or depiction. 

    I think my first image portrays just what I desired. My concept for the composite was to represent a road of journey thats long and strenuous but worthwhile in the end. This journey is represented in my image by the mountainous trail to which the girl in the foreground is about to take and the orange and yellow sky represents hope and clarity of what's beyond the fog as the sun rises. 

Midnight Mist

Sweet Noel