We worked on a project using color and opacity modulation. Though the goal was to portray some sort of emotion such as in an illustration, I don't feel that the CMYK method is very conducive to understandable emotion. It can only really convey a feeling of dissociative stress or homogeneity, which rapidly becomes stale. I tried to create a psychedelic-like effect with a picture of my cat (above), but the colors didn't blend well, and it just didn't mix. For my final photograph, I used duct-tape and a tripod to capture photos of me from a perspective I liked. I combined several picture of me in different poses, which I layered over an empty one. It represents the laborious process of coming up with ideas.
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For this project, we frankensteined together a bunch of images with the magic wand select, which would select part of an illustration we made, and then manipulated. I tried something similar with a standard photo for the first three. After that, I made two illustrations which I combined with photos to represent different mental states. There are two I did with a picture of a sophomore (Mitchell White) and one with Mrs. Haggerty. They mostly changed tone based on what music I was listening to.
I "learned" how to use Adobe Illustrator, which is to say, I opened it and basically used Photoshop, but in a vector-based format. Using the pen tool, I made a stencil to cut out, through which I was led to believe we'd shine an omnidirectional light. Using an exacto knife, I cut it out. We ended up lacking the light source I was told we'd have, and I had to do my best using a purple light someone left in the classroom. These four were the best that I got.
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