Tiny Spherical Worlds

Composite images help create a panorama which is a image which helps you get a wider view of an image. For our assignment we took 10 vertical pictures in a panoramic form which we are going to put together in Photoshop. This way it would be easier for us to morph it into a world so. When you are taking the pictures you have got to remember to get an equal amount of sky and ground, and make sure that there is nothing hanging down from the sky, like leaves. In Photoshop you would have to use the Photomerge tool so that Photoshop can piece together your composite images together into one single image. Make sure that your photos have at least 25% overlap on each other so Photoshop can do the Photomerge.

Polar panoramas and Spherical panoramas are completely different things but the process of making them are very similar. Polar panoramas are the panoramas that turn into the little planets that you see me standing on. Spherical panoramas are like you're looking up through a tunnel to see the sky. Both panoramas can still have portraits but the polar panorama must have a high angle of a person while a spherical panorama would have a low angle of a person. There is only one step in the process that separate the two panoramas which is turning the image 180 degrees at a certain step to create a polar panorama and you would leave the step out if you wanted to create a spherical panorama. 

A big part of our grade for the project is to make the finished products look realistic. This is hard to do because when you assign the polar coordinates, Photoshop takes the two ends of the image and merges them together which creates a line where they meet. That line makes it obvious that the image was warped around. To prevent this we had to use a tool called the stamp tool so we can smudge the line out. This is the hardest part of the panoramic process because sometimes the lines are very obvious which may take up to an hour to make look convincing. Then for the portraits to look convincing we had to make our shadows believable by putting it under our feet, feathering the edges for the shadow to look realistic, turn the opacity down and make sure it matches the angle in which the sun is shining.

Hockney Style Joiners

David Hockney's photomontages are very different from the one's we're creating in class. Hockney's photomontages were not made digitally, he instead made his photomontages by hand after taking pictures and using the physical copies. This also made it cost way more; since the cameras weren't digital each picture had to be processed and there were sometimes up to 100 pictures. David Hockney's photomontages also showed movement of a subject which we didn't focus on in our class. If a person is showed in one of his photomontages they will likely be moving in the image.

Images can send really strong messages which can be emotional in a positive or negative way. Images can show things that might make someone feel a certain way if it is taken the right way. Special effects to an image can help add that feel to it which everyone likes. Usually something that is colorless and black and white will send more of a negative or sad message. Colorful and vibrant images can show happiness and an upbeat message.

I did not really intend to send a message but instead just expressed my love for fishing which is one of my favorite hobbies. So in this case there is no universal meaning but more of a personal meaning for myself. This is all my gear that I use whenever I go fishing. I have frog lures, and my two fishing rods tackle box with hooks and weights and other lures, my fishing rods along with my Scissors.