3 Compositions

The composition above started out as a picture of origami on top of a cash register at Stop and Shop. The first thing I did when importing it into Photoshop was fixing the rotation and scale of the image. I rotated it to make strong horizontal lines, and then scaled the image up to have the diagonals line up with the left dragon. The next thing I did was move the right dragon to line up with the other diagonal.

The quick changes that were made went a long way in the quality of the image. The photo was taken quickly, and with no thought so that my boss wouldn't see me goofing off. The power of Photoshop gave the image the deliberate photographic precision that was not available to me at the time.

This next composition started as a picture to show my friends at home the sink in my room. It was crooked and didnt have any redeeming photographic value. After opening this train wreck in Photoshop, I rotated the image to create grid-like lines out of the metal support pieces. Then, in order to make the image more symmetrical, I moved the red contact lens case from the left side to the right side, and then clone stamped the area it was in to make it less noticeable.

These changes would have been easy if I was putting thought into the image, but I took a quick picture with a camera phone. Photoshop was an unnecessary step, but it had to be done to make the image look nicer.

The final composition took a lot of work to get right. Obviously, the portal was not originally in the picture. The portal was imported from a game appropriately named Portal. I used the free transform tool to alter the perspective of the portal since it was facing straight originally. Now it goes with the angle of the wall. Then, in order to make it look like Claire is blocking some of the portal, I cut off her shoulder, and sewed it back on in a higher layer than the portal.

This picture was the only one that didn't have to be rotated or scaled in any way. I took my time getting the image to be rotated correctly, and i even placed my camera on a flat surface to make it more steady.