Week 8 - Final Week

  This week was the final week of this project and I had a lot to get on with. I started working on my 3d mounting piece which consisted of a cardboard box. First I had to wrap black poster paper around the cardboard box and tape it down. Let's just say I wish they had sold black wrapping paper, because that would've made this task so much easier for me and would've made it a lot more neater and professional looking. After all the wrapping and taping was done to the outside of the box I began doing the same in the inside except with some glue this time. It looked a bit better than if I had used the tape, so that went by well until some glue accidentally spilt inside the box after I had put the poster paper inside so it left a stain. Though that later got resolved with just putting the photos on it and using it to tick the photos to the box but there are still hints of it there.
  After sticking on the photos I had finished the 3d mounting piece. It didn't come out as professionally as I had wanted it too, but it does its job and makes the photos stand out in its own way.
  After that I had done folder work the rest of the day to finish off my sketchbook and perfect it to my ability.
  Overall for this project I would say I have accomplished my goal which was to learn and try and tackle this project as well as I can since it is out of my comfort zone and I don't usually deal with designing and carrying out designs. I definitely learned a lot on photoshop than I had before and hopefully that would come to good use. The thing I had most succeeded in during this project was the photographs in a whole, because they turned out to be quite good and well edited and I think that's what I was going to excel at in this project from the beginning.

Week 7- More Editing and Planning My Final Piece

  So to start this week I began with editing some photos and also getting some printed. It did take me a while to decide which photos I was going to print off for my final piece. I worked on a lot of the photos I thought would be good to have in my final piece, but I still have many others to possibly print as well.
  For how I would mount my final piece I decided to use a cardboard box to mount all my photos on, but this is a really commonly used mounting idea so I though I had to develop it a bit more. I thought of putting the main photos of the doll inside the cardboard box and some other photos that I had took for practice on the outside perimeter of the box, so that it would look like a sign of caution to not enter the box or something along those terms. I would also put a picture of a crane near the top of the box so it would look like its reaching inside the box. So with this design I have both included my main photos and some of my practice shots.
  Here are the photos that I currently have printed off.

  So these are the photos I have currently printed out and I'm still planning to have lots more printed.
  Next week is going to be the last week and a big one. I'm in the process of completing my mount and hopefully have it ready to be mounted soon.

Week 6- Editing and Taking More Photos

  First, I started to edit the photos that I had taken from last week and see how they would turn out.  So here I'm going to show you how I got to editing these.

Before:

  So for this picture I aim at having the graffiti and fence in the background to have a nice effect. I think what makes this photo good is how your eye strays immediately to the doll on the left. Of course the rule of thirds has to do with this, but I think it was worth mentioning.

After:

  As you can tell I turned the photo black and white except for the doll. I think this makes the doll stand out and that's what I was aiming for. I used history brush to put the colour back on the doll. History brush is by far one of my favourite tool to use on photoshop. Even though I've recently learned about I can use it I now used it on almost all my final photos because I think that some colours and figures need to stand out in black and white and I pick those specific colours or figures to use the tool on and a new effect to my photo.
  Let me now show one more example on another final photo that I will use in my project.

    Unfortunately for this photo I don't seem to find the original version, so I will explain the one only difference. I have yet again used the black and white and history brush technique. Although this time I have used the history brush on the background, not the doll. As you see I have kept the doll and hand in white and black. The main reason for that is because the background has such a nice colour scheme and it would've been a shame to keep it in black and white, so I decided to use the black and white on the hand and the doll. I am thinking though that it may have been a mistake to put the doll and hand in black and white since now they don't stand out to me as much, so I'm going to keep in consideration to maybe change the picture and just add a bit of contrast and levels instead.
  After all the editing I went out to take a few photos and also help another classmate with some of his photos. So after the photo taking this day was done. I'm going to put some of the photos we took on this blog. They are all un-edited and will show the edited versions next week.
  Next week I'm hoping to start on my mounting piece and my final project. I also will get around to printing some of my photos to go on the mount. So next week is also a big day.