I
created a photographic art piece that displays many of the elements and
principles of design, but some of the most relevant principles I used were,
unity, contrast and well-used colour balance. I used mainly used organic
colours, which have the tendency to compliment each other. I used the black
background not only as part of my meaning, but it also compliments and unifies
the black and other not so organic colours in the motherboard. I used colour to
create contrast with the globe, grass and motherboard. I didn’t realize until I
put all my photos in the image that the colours contrasted and unified the
image, it wasn’t intentional at first, but once I realized it was a possibility
I went for.
I
used the surrealist style in two big ways. The first way was instead of a
satellite image of the earth, I used a globe and aimed hot lights at it to try
and simulate the way the suns rays and light fall upon the earth. The other way
I used surrealism was with the grass and motherboard on South America and
Africa.
The
message behind my piece is very simple, but does need some explaining. My
message is that with all the new technologies, we are destroying our natural
world to create a tech. world. The background is black because as far as human
kind knows, after we destroy earth we won’t have anything else. Nowhere else to
go or live and we will all die faster then we think. Not many people our
focused on changing our bad habits of because they like the fact that they can
hide behind their phone and not have to face the truth. Just as I manipulated
my photos into one photo, mankind is manipulating our natural resources and the
ability to use the Internet for what it’s meant. Information. Not for
Misinformation. I used the grass on
Africa because a lot of Africa is still living of the land and Mother Nature. I
put the motherboard on the Americas because they are a lot more tech forward
then other parts of the world and is North America doing a lot of the damage
and just not carrying.
In
terms of the technical aspect of my photo I have one major flaw I would like
improve, a problem I overcame and the discovery of new Photoshop tools that I
found to be not only interesting, but every helpful too. The major flaw I
notice was in the early stage of photography when I took the picture of the
globe and didn’t get all of the globe, I attempted to fix this by lowering the
globes position on my image so it would look more intentional. Next time I do
an assignment similar to this is make sure my object is fully in lense and maybe
using the cove. A problem that occurred
but I managed to overcome was I didn’t take the photos with the same light
source this became a problem once I started to layer the images. I fixed this
problem by lining up all the light sources to make it unnoticeable. I
discovered and was taught quiet a few more tools in Photoshop that I fond very
helpful while making this image. One of these tools was the mask. I helped me
not destroy my images, but still be able to remove backgrounds. I also really
liked the blending modes where I could make something transparent and make it
exactly how liked it to be. The technical and production of my image I found to
be both fun and informative.
