Week 6

Assignment: Continued our 2nd Mash-up. Finish our final draft for after spring break.

Composition: Using photoshop, I cropped, copied, pasted, erased several photos of family members of Sarah Szafranski. I adjusted the brightness and contrasts of each person to make them stand out more. In addition, I took a larger image of Sarah and fading her face into the sky, giving her more divine feel to the image. I also added a cross to give the impression that Sarah had past away.

Concept: This a dedication to my friend, Sarah Szafranski, who was murdered at Lane Bryant last year. This image may focus on Sarah, but the photo is meant to show that life goes on and people can live through struggles/obstacles in life no matter how hard they may be. There is always hope somewhere. You will see this through the family members in the pictures. This photo will also touch upon the pointlessness of domestic violence and how much pain it can cause to not only one, but many. 

Week 5

Assignment: Start our second mash-up. Take 25 new photos and mashed them up similar to our previous assignment.

Craft: Use photoshop to digitally illustrate photos to create a new piece of art.

Compostion: I have taken several photos of friends. I will use these photos to mash them together. I have taken several other photos and use these photos to crop over those friends bodies like a t-shirt. In the end, the final piece will be a group of friends with cropped photos on them. The cropped t-shirt photos will be of symbols of events in their life the made them into the person they are today. In a way, this piece will show things that normally people couldn't tell from looking at.

Concept: This piece is meant to show people's insides in the form of a t-shirt. People will be able to see ones stories with a glance at what they are wearing.

Week 4

Assignment: Finish the final draft of my mash-up

Craft: Using photoshop I touched up my picture. I made Lincoln and Tads hair darker and face lighter. Their skin was touched up lighter to better fit there facial expressions. I played with the brightness. I made a shadow effect behind both Lincolns. Also, I tweaked their facial expressions to make them look like their both having a good time.

Compostion: I mashed three photos together. The picture of a younger Abe, Tad Lincoln, and two friends playing guitar hero create a great photo that shows the concept I was going for.

Concept: Like I said in week 3, Abe Lincoln looks so serious in all his photos, but when with his family I found little smirks. I wanted to show that Abe is a great family man and a good father. A good father would be seen doing things their son would do. In todays era, guitar hero is a big trend for teenagers. I named this picture "AbeHero" because Abe is an American Hero during the Civil War, a Hero as a father, and is playing guitar Hero.

Week 3

Assignment: Mash up a minimum of two photos selected from last week. One photo must be Lincoln era and another my this era.

Craft: In order to mash up these photos, the program "Photoshop" was used to complete this goal. I kept playing with different photos. I found on I like on a friend playing guitar hero, however, I decided to retake the shot, which I'll explain in composition. Also, via the Internet I acquired a photo of a younger Abe Lincoln and his youngest son, Tad.

Composition: I retook my gutiarhero shot. I decided to include another friend. Now there are two people playing guitar hero. They well be replaced by Abe and Tad Lincoln. I took the shot in a dorm room. All these elements help reflect my concept after what I was recommended to do after my first critique.

Concept: While finding photos of Abe, I noticed when Abe was with family his smile was different. Abe looks so serious and professional in his photos, but with family I see a smirk. The photo with Tad and Abe in unique because no matter how hard Abe tried to keep a serious face, you could see him smile at his boy. This leads me to think that Abe was a family man and a good father. This is what I will show in my photo.