The version that I made less saturated (originally posted)-
The more warm version-
For this project, my original idea was to make my cat look huge. It was difficult for me to try to imagine her as huge without having a human in contrast beside her, so I came up with this idea. Her name is Mittens and she adores popcorn, so I thought it would be funny if it looked like she was a large cat that was being offered popcorn by a small person.
Overall, it sounded like it was a pretty successful image that I created. I don’t think that the concept necessarily related to a lot of people, but it sounded like it was entertaining, so that was good. It was funny to hear how people responded to the point of view, because I made the cat much larger than she was originally. The following are issues that I would like to resolve that I hadn’t seen before:
ReplyDelete-BIGGEST ONE: the popcorn is too bright. This is because I used the in-camera flash, which was not my best decision with the piece. The flash caused the popcorn to look much more flat and cartoon-y because there are almost no shadows, so it doesn’t fit in well with Sarah and Mittens. I will probably re-shoot the popcorn piece with the appropriate lighting, because I think it would look better than if I were going to burn and dodge or use a blending mode.
-Add shadows on hand under popcorn
-Lighten up Sarah’s… pants, shadow under her, and her back
-Someone said to soften the black pants, but I think that maybe the issue could be fixed if I lighten them up- I’ll have to see what looks best.
-There are two small halos with Sarah that I missed
-Pretty important to fix- the soft edges on the left side of Mittens. They need to look more like the top of the image.
-Last thing- I posted a less saturated version of the image, and when I showed someone the more warm version, they said it looked better! So I will be using the more warm version (and I will post that beside the original blog photo).
I LOVED the “speed dating” critique! It definitely forced us to talk to our peers about what we think about their work, and that seemed to be very helpful. It was great because I got a lot more comments on what I could fix (and it’s helpful to have the option to go in and fix some of those things). That was definitely my favorite critique that I’ve had this whole school year, it was very productive, interesting, and lively.