Assignment #3

 

The above picture has been cropped to a specific area in order to emphasize the movement of Siberian husky. Furthermore the surrounding area is slightly blurred out also to create a focal point of the image. Also, the brightness took an important factor as well because of the shade that had been created by the fence. Thus, the upper location of the image has been increased its brightness. The secondary image was created and overlaid on top of the original one to smooth-out any rough edges. The snow had to have a slightly brighter shade than the other objects because I wanted to express the idea of northern arctic dog and how it’s friendly to the snow. The black textured boarder was added because too many colours could hinder the beauty of black and grey husky. Textured boarder was a perfect fit for this image because it goes against the Gaussian blurred areas.

Above image should be beautiful but due to previous weather conditions, I decided to use the image as an art work. First of all, the river is very muddy and looked polluted. Thus, I decided to colour the river a light blue and over lay the colour so it’s more natural. Also, the reflection on the river was added. Furthermore, the sky looked very foggy because of the camera that was used to take this image. So, the clouds were added and over laid on top of the image. In addition, the whole image had to be rendered so the above editing should look artistic rather than realistic. The image should look like it’s been painted by an artist with oil paints and a knife.   

In conclusion, I have used editing skills for two different purposes. The first one had too large view of the image and the viewers could not tell the main point of image. Thus, cropping and blurring were critical on the editing process. The quality of second image was very poor due to the camera. Thus, the artistic way of editing was needed. In my opinion, edited images do not hold greater value than the original ones. However, in above cases, I believed that sufficient amount of editing could envelop the viewers.

Image one : Siberian husky taken at my boyfriend’s house

Image two : West Grand Canyon