Still Life Project: Final Images

Mask Extraction in Photoshop Round 2

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Sketches for Still Life Project

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Still Life

Abstraction

I really enjoyed the two readings assigned to us about abstraction. I liked how the first reading, written by Andy Grundberg, talked about how photography is unable to really abstract anything since photographs shows a true realistic copy of what the camera saw. This article later stated that photography can only represent the idea of abstraction, rather than actually achieving abstraction. At first, I actually agree with what Grundberg was saying, but then later changed my mind when I read the second article online. In this article, it stated that all art is abstract since it is representing something tangible. I really liked that idea of all photographs being abstract in a way, since they are showing something tangible to the viewer, but still not showing the actually subject directly to the viewer.

These two abstract photographs, that I took this weekend, are able to show the viewer the object being photographed, while still leaving some of the image confusing. I chose these photographs because I really like how the different colors and shaded areas play with the viewers mind. The viewer might see a foot or a hand at first, but then start to see other images instead, that their mind starts to make up in the light and dark areas of the photograph.

Top Three Collages

I chose these three photomontages because I find them to be the most appealing and interesting to look at among the 20 collages that I mad over the summer. I also think they are the most successful with portraying the message I was trying to convey in each image. I really like the muted colors in these three, as well as the way I used red to highlight certain objects in each collage. I also chose these three since they are the three photomontages that really stand out to me the most when I am looking at all 20 of my collages together.