Assignment 1 Revisions
Following tutor
feedback I had a look at a couple of the images that I had submitted for
Project 1: “Gestalt in Composition”.
Image 2: Arable Fields
My tutor commented
that there may have been some over-sharpening in post-processing. Generally I
use a little sharpening for all my images and it is unusual for an image to
appear over-sharpened. I decided to repeat post processing for this image but
without sharpening, then to look for differences in the “blown up” images.
Identical small segments of the images are shown below, with the sharpened segment first (Image 1) and the unsharpened segment second (Image 2).
Image 1
Image 2
There is a clear
difference in sharpness between the images (most obvious by looking at the
paler grass). However, I am not sure that the original image (Image 1) is over-sharpened: perhaps apparent
over-sharpening may be caused by the myriad clods of soil reflecting light in
different directions, resulting in a lot of tiny white spots. Anyway, I should
be careful not to over-sharpen images in future (or indeed sharpen them at
all), especially when the subject matter contains a great deal of texture.
Image 3: Feeding
the Birds, Broomfield Park
My tutor didn’t
like the composition of this image and I found it rather cluttered. I therefore
used “Photoshop Elements 8” to make some changes to the image. The litter bin
and four of the birds were removed from the original image (Image 3, below) to
give a somewhat simpler, less cluttered result (Image 4). Image 4 still
conforms to the various Gestalt laws, but in a clearer way. Even so, it’s still
not a photograph that I would hang on my wall! The modified image will be
submitted, along with the original, for assessment. See if you can spot the
five differences between the photographs!
Image 3
Image 4
Major Project and Critical Review Proposals
Following the
feedback I made minor changes to these proposals: the resultant final proposals
will be submitted for assessment.
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