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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. 

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Chris McCaffrey

Digital Imaging

10/4/16

Artist Reflection

            I created a piece in which a bunch of Z’s were put together to show a picture that is eye candy.  I put a lot of color into this picture including Z’s in the back of other Z’s.  I believe the strongest area of my work is the two patterns in the background of the Z’s.  It really shows the colors spread throughout the picture and catches the eye.  The many colors was the point of this to be fun to look at.  I didn’t want to have bland colors that weren’t exciting and was tiring just to look at.  The part of the work that can be improved on is the order of the picture.  I need a little more experience in digital imaging in order to understand how to order things.  I feel like as we get deeper into the class I’ll learn more about where to put things to try to create art that is pleasing to the eye.

            The easiest part of this art piece was putting it all together.  I didn’t have to worry about anything being wrong because I had so much freedom during the making of this art piece so putting everything together wasn’t a problem at all.  Basically this whole project was easy but the easy part was trying to figure where to arrange things because there was nothing to worry about.  What was difficult about this project was trying to figure how to use the different tools on Photoshop.  I’m not familiar at all with Photoshop so this art piece took a lot of patience to figure out the different tools.

            The tools I used in Photoshop was the 3D tool, the layering tool, and opacity tool.  All of these tools contributed to the making of this artwork.  I used all these tools to make the picture more interesting and to have different types of elements inside the picture.  The 3D and 2D letters add a nice variety to the different types of things happening in the picture.  I demonstrated the goal by putting a lot of variety in the picture, order and colors.  I try to incorporate all three aspects so that it made it look like a cool picture.  If I could do this activity again I would use more of the tools so that there would be a lot more going on in the picture than there is right now.  There is a lot going on in the picture but there could definitely be a lot more.  All in all it was a fun and entertaining project.    

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