final narrative

This is my final narrative what i was trying to show with these images was a story of myself. Starting with the first picture of me as a baby; in this picture i have me starting off as i was born to play basketball ever since i was little. things that i had used was a basketball goal a basketball, a trophy and my pass to the national champions. I was trying to represent a dream. little kids always say what they want to be when they grow up well this was what i pictured. My background was of the tennessee basketball court i chose it because i have always wanted to play for Pat Sumitt and Tenn. was my favorite team so i figured it would be a good background. The tools i used alot of it was cropping the pictures i did have from the original background and doing an overlay with some of the pictures and adjusting the color balance and the brightness of some. With the background i also added a big basketball and did an overlay to blend alot of it in, but the main focus of the picture that i wanted to catch the viewers eye was the baby. with the second picture i was trying to go for a hindu goddess theme that had arms coming out of her body and the reason for this i was trying to get the point across that with these things you can succeed. I chose a basketball as the background as well as a basketball goal i messed with the brightness of the goal to not make it stand out as much i had taken a picture of my arm and cropped it and added it to the image and and using the transform under edit i sized and rotated it to have it look lilke its coming out of her body.




With this last picture the point that i was trying to make to follow along with the story is that she is the basketball now that its truly a part of her. for the background i added things that delt with basketball shoes trophys a basketball goals things that got her to where she finally was. With the face and making it a basketball what i did was put a basketball over the original face and then duplicted the picture of her i cropped the eyes and lips and then did a gradient affect with the ball to have it shown just half of her face and not the full head a basketball and then i just erased and worked around the edges of the mouth. i also added basketballsin her eyes to emphasize my point of the story.

Lorteria #5

With these pictures i was trying to go along with the game lorteria. Its a game board from mexico and basically its bout chance so with my first picture what i was trying to do is have things that take chance things that i was trying to grasp for. Like my job at Baptist East hospital, very hard to get into right off the bat, so i seen myself taking a chance with that. i had bought a new car thats a big chance i added things that meant luck such as the four leaf clover, the horseshoe. I was trying to brings it as a rainbow and at the end is apot of gold. Teh tools i used well for the background i duplictaed the layer and did some cropping, i overlayed the horseshoe layer and with the eraser erased over the clouds some so you could see the horseshoe. I cut out four leaf clovers and minimzed them and put them on a trail on top of the rainbow. I had scanned my pay check and added that to the picture as well, using text since the picture was so small i added that on to the paper so you could understand where i was coming from. I blended in the money with a soft brush eraser, to make it look like its coming out if the pot.

With this picture i was trying to the bad part of chance for me i took the chance of having a car and got in wreck so a all the money i worked for went towards paying the car and it was consequence for that chance. For the background what i did was have dark grey skies. i then overlayed it with broken glass to kind of represent where i was coming from, as being shattered and hurt. i thne took a picture of y eye and cropped it and added it to the picture, i lightened up the outside of the eye to blend it in messed with the color balance to not have it so bright. I had a picture of money and what i did was take the eraser and go down the middle of ti liek it was ripped. Kind of meaning all that i earned was taken away because of the wreck. I had taken a picture of the wrecked car and cropped it and added it into the picture i changed the overlay doing a hard layer, and chnaged the brightness of it. with these two pictures i was really trying to get to different purposes of chance you have the good and the bad of it.

Surrealism #4

this assignment we were suppost to create pictures that depicted surrealism so for my first photo what i was trying to accomplish was a house floating in the sky the techiniques that i used was i used a sky for the background, but duplictaed it three times and on each layer i changed the color balance of it to make it darker as you follow the picture down. Next i had taken a picture of my oms place and this picture was taken later in the evening so i changed the brightness of the picture and lightened it up. the next thing i did was add waterfalls that i had pictures of to each side of the house and added some flowers to attract your eye to them. I also had use the smudge tool and dragged out the bottom of the waterfall to make it comeover the floating ground itseelf like it was fallig into the sky i added little colors of stars so kind of give it a magical affect. for the bottom of the ground that the house is sitting on i actually used a picture of mountians to kind of give the effect of use yuor imagination type thing. and i turned it upside down and faded and messed with the color balance to give it the look it has.

For this picture i combined to types of pictures a waterfall and a creek, i wanted to give the effect of the waterfall calming down and like flowing into a stream i added the sky background from a clipping of another picture. I did the lgithing effect in the cormer to kind of show a contrast of light in the picture with shadows and stuff coming off the octupus. I added some flowers and a butterfly. what really tops this picture off is the octupus in the water i did the cloning stamp and added water coming off of the octupus like its coming out of the water to give it a surreal effect.