Portfolio Project # 1
My Plan: For this shoot, I wanted to take pictures of the sky and some instruments. Originally, I was going to combine the two pictures in photoshop, but in the end I decided to print them separately.
Unedited Photos
When I took pictures for this project, I just went outside one day at school to get pictures of the clouds for the "sky" portion of my pictures. I also laid out some music on the ground and set my flute and a bass clarinet on top of the sheet music. I took multiple pictures of the sky when the clouds were in different positions and I tried to take multiple pictures from different angles.
Edited Photos
I didn't do very much editing for these pictures, but I did change the contrast and brightness. I wanted to combine two pictures at first using photoshop, so I tried using the cloud picture as a background and then tried the instrument picture as a background. After I edited those two, I decided to just use two separate pictures and print one of them on transparent paper.
Printed Photo
In the end, I did print out two seperate photos, one of the clouds and one with music. I decided to print the clouds on transparent paper instead of the music picture and I layered the clouds on top. After I printed and layered my two photos, they did not look as good as I originally imagined and I actually preferred the plain music photo by itself better. The picture with music paper and the flute and bass clarinet does not have very much color and the transparent picture only has blue in it so overall, my photo does not have a lot of color in it and I think I would like it better if it has some more color. When I look at this picture, it reminds me of how woodwind instruments typically sound and how when playing certain songs on the flute how it makes you feel almost as though you are floating like a cloud. It can give you a light and happy feeling. Overall, I do think this piece is successful, but I do think that I could have done a better job at conveying a certain message to the viewers.