Friday, January 6, 2017

Collage Reflection

       The strongest area of my work that I created was the blending.  I feel like I blended all the pictures together very well and it makes the picture look very interesting.  The area that I can improve on is making the colors blend together a little better because it is a bit much to take in when you first look at it.
      The easiest part of this activity was choosing the pictures because I know my self pretty well so i chose things that I liked and that showed who I was.  It was nice putting all the pictures together at the end and seeing that they all make up myself.  What was difficult about this activity was trying to figure out where each picture went and what looked best to the eye.
      The tools used were the filters and color changing tools as well as the layers because each layer of the picture helped put together the picture better.  Using these tools really helped layer the collage better and make it look better overall.  I demonstrated the goal of the project by making different size images all come together to look like one nice overall picture.  What I would do differently if I did this project again I'd definitely choose different photos to make a completely  different collage.  

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Reflection

Chris McCaffrey
Digital Imaging
11/2/16
Artist Reflection
            The work I created is a picture of myself 5 times in one picture also known as a clone picture.  The strongest piece of this work I believe was the clones themselves and how well they came out.  They came out looking very good and better than I thought they would so I was proud of that.  I feel if the camera was held steadier then the background wouldn’t be as off so next time I do one of these I’ll be sure to keep the camera steady.  What was easy about this project was putting each clone into the picture, which I thought would be much more challenging.  I thought there was going to be a lot of steps to it but it really wasn’t much at all and I found it very simple.
            What was difficult about this activity was trying to set the background to look undistorted in the final product.  The background for each picture was just a little off which made the setting for the final picture with all the clones a little challenging to set.  The tools in Photoshop used in this project were the brush tool and layering so that each picture could match up with the other and put all the clones in one picture.  I used these to easily place each clone in one picture it was easy as just coloring them into the picture which was so cool to see when they just appeared in the picture.

            I demonstrated the goal in this activity by placing all the clones together in one picture making sure the picture looked normal.  If I did this again I would probably fix the camera in one position rather than have someone hold and take the pictures because the really did not help me out in the end.  Overall though I had a lot of fun while doing this project and would happily do it again.