Hand Double Exposure and The Exquisite Corpse

Contact Sheet

The contact sheet assignment was a simple run through of all the basic photo manipulations you can do in photoshop.

The focus of the first row was on resolution. As the image progresses from left to right the resolution increases, meaning the image has more pixels (dots) per square inch (ppi), the more pixels the image has the more clear it will appear.

The second row deals with color modes. the original image of the hearts appears in the RBG column. this picture remains unchanged from the original because the web displays in the RGB color mode already. The 1st image is a desaturated version or black and white. second is a dual-chrome or in this case sepia toned image and the final is displayed using the printing color mode called CMYK

Orientation refers to cropping f the same image. The original is the landscape version, wider than it is tall which involved no cropping. the mountains were then cropped in two ways, the middle show a square version where all sides are equal in length, and the portrait version in column 1 is taller than it is wide.

Row 4 was done with the same crop tool, but this time the image size was unchanged. This created a zoom effect on the woman's face. the image went from the original one the far right, wide angle, to a close up.

Row 5 was exactly the same as row 4 except the zoom in was less representational and more abstract. The goal was to do the same zoom effect but to a place that was more obscure. Essentially, the image went from representational to indecipherable.

The final row dealt with different filters that were placed over an image of myself. The first one up close has strokes to make it appear like a charcoal and chalk drawing instead of being a photograph. The next two are both neon glows however, one highlights the edges and outlines in the image and the following one glows the light tone in the actual image. The final image is the actual portrait.

Font Poem

The Quote I used for the font poem assignment was not one that I was familiar with prior to the class. When asked to find a quote I almost immediately started scouring my favorite tunes. I found a few I liked meaning wise but none that I could really convey there meanings through appearance. A quick Google search came up with countless quotation websites and Emerson was one of the few authors I recognized. The quote itself worked out perfectly, when I read it I could already see an idea of how to manipulate the words in order to illustrate their meanings.

The words themselves are arranged in no special order to me. When I made the separate layers typing the words into Photoshop I like how they wound up slightly staggered. Obviously I neatened them up a bit from the rough draft to try to make the quote more readable and eat up some of the white space around the phrase.

Also instead of the simple a slightly boring black background I went to a 2-color gradient. Yellow and blue are both lively and vibrant colors, which reflect the subject of the sentence, life. Yellow convey feelings of joy and happiness while blue shows a sense of depth and stability.

The other two colors in the image are red and green. The red was used to highlight the keywords that were noted as incorrect or wrong while the green colors draw attention to the positive words. The strike emphasizes the wrongness of length and not and ties them together at the same time.

The two key words that jumped at me were “length” and “depth”. I wanted to draw special attention to them by making them a little larger than any of the other words. Also length was created using Blackoak standard, which is a short and long font to try to illustrate length. “It is not the” uses a more simple font, Alexa Std, to just get the words across but keep them plain at the some time. They exist but there isn’t much else to them. “of”, “but”, and “the” in the second phrase utilize a font called Banshee, which is more a more full and cultured looking font illustrating a more desirable mood to the positive part of the phrase. “Life” is made with the cutout font namely for the people figures, and depth uses another full and educated appearing font called Lucinda handwriting. Depth, another of the key words, was given a shadow to make it look beveled into the image for a depthier appearance; giving the word a downward arc effect emphasized this.

I’m proud of how the image keeps the tone of the quote without looking to cheesy color wise. However, if I had more time I would have played around with the background a little more. My main trouble with the project was playing around with the words enough so that I could better illustrate the sentence. The font selection was also a bit tricky. However, once I started tinkering the poem took shape.