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Title: “Musician’s Friend”
Three descriptive tags: “music”, “bass”, “tattoos”, “three layers”
Since I have yet to post a Photograph with more than two layers I choose to play around a bit. I enjoyed taking two original photos and manipulating them in PhotoShop adding a third layer of color to enhance the tonality of the shot. I truly enjoyed this assignment allowing me to play around with the artistic side of photo editing. These are the projects I live for.
I really like the outcome of the photo and am not real sure what I could do to improve the shot. Maybe – If I think really hard on this one – I could have added another original photo (for example a close-up of my eye or face or lack of hair). I could have played around with the colors as well trying different combinations and such.
I have always been a fan of music and art and feel – just as the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the Victorian era did – that music art and literature work well together. I would use this photograph to spark discussion about tone and mood – how the choice of imagery and color reflect the title. I would have my students look at the language of the photograph using OPTIC (O - is for overview - write down a few notes on what the visual appears to be about. P - is for parts-zero in on the parts of the visual. Write down any elements or details that seem important. T - is for title-highlight the words of the title of the visual (if one is available). I - is for interrelationships-use the title as the theory and the parts of the visual as clues to detect and specify the interrelationships in the graphic. C - is for conclusion--draw a conclusion about the visual as a whole. What does the visual mean? Summarize the message of the visual in one or two sentences.) and use for discussion. This – of course – would be for a High School English class – the only class I know how to teach.
Photograph Assignment 04