Tis it's the end of DART 130, and we had to do a final with 5 choices. I chose to do the taking-pictures-and-editing-and-making-them-look-better choice :P My theme was a Christmas/Winter sort of feeling to it. Someone found a deeper, more defining theme and that was a Christmas/Winter Solitude and I think it's a great theme. Basically, Christmas/Winter Solitude is scenes in which it's away from people or society is out of reach.
So here are the original and edited images:
(Original is first, then the edited :)
I found it funny how with this image, I was unsure what to do but I made the sun light darker with a fog, and added a reindeer and snow :) And even when I was unsure, my teacher commented that this picture seems pretty real since there are no people in the image x)
The class & critics said that this classroom picture didn't really fit with the theme. I worked hard with the white board, removing the chair, and removing all the things I thought could be removed from the image.
This is one of my favorite edits. I had a lot of fun with figuring out what to do, making the snow look real and making the clouds a different color. I removed the car to make it more solitude and added Christmas lights to give a holiday feeling :)
I also got good word in for this edit because rather than having this random house in the background, I added in a Christmas tree instead with a dark background giving the image a night feeling. I loved how I duplicated the right side door to the left to make the doors equal. I like this one :)
But this image is my absolute favorite. You can't see it, but WAAYYY FARRR in the distance, there was a car there. I removed that, and added in a fence by using the clone stamp. I was happy x) And this image I think I worked the hardest because there was so much I could work with. And the end product made me really happy :)
