Assignment #7
I took two separate berries from my first picture, some twigs from the second and fourth and made it look like the twigs were enclosing around the berries. I then added some flowers from my last picture. I used the burn tool to add shadows on the berries where the twigs touched so it would look like they were actually on the berries. I couldn’t get the twigs to wrap around the berries like I wanted so I had to distort them and compile bits of twigs from different pictures into one twig. Then I took flowers from the last picture and I changed the color of the flowers so they wouldn’t harshly clash with the berry.
I wanted to make a picture that could at first just seem to be a real picture from nature, but after a second one realizes that plants don’t grow like that and then becomes interested in this semi-fantastical image. That’s why I added the text in the bottom right which is also a reference to my original comment on the first essay. I also thought it was cool because the twigs sort of look like hands.
Clutching - Luke Taylor
Assignment #6
AU is a city campus – there is not an abundance of beautiful nature like I am used to in rural Virginia. To find that beauty you have to look closely.
Berries #1 by Luke Taylor February 2009
Berries #2 by Luke Taylor February 2009
Twig and Berries by Luke Taylor February 2009
Twig By Luke Taylor February 2009
Twsited Vines by Luke Taylor February 2009
Vines on Fence by Luke Taylor February 2009
Explosive Vegetation by Luke Taylor February 2009
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