Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Keri Cline - Project 1

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  1. Dre DreSeptember 15, 2009 at 4:35 PM

    There are several different subjects in the overall image, and each one is cropped and cut extremely well. Personally I have a lot of trouble and not enough patience to make every line and detail perfect. But since these are so prominent and can been seen and observed up close and in detail, it was necessary to make every line fine and clean cut. You did a great job for each object. Specifically the animal bone and matches. It seems like you have a very steady hand and did a good job choosing the right brushes to crop.
    Even though these things individually are cut and cropped well, I get a weird feeling that they don't flow well together. I feel like these totally different objects were just placed almost randomly, but I'm not sure! Who am I to say!? But, each objects appears as if they're floating because there are no shadows of any kind to feel any sort of depth. Also, each photograph is clearly completely different, as in the value, contrast, blurriness, etc. Maybe if you played around with the adjustments to make the images look similar it would flow a little bit better. I think it could be a bit more successful if the objects were placed and adjusted differently to set up a scene that looked like everything wasn't so random. I would also suggest to reduce the size of the salt and pepper shakers, and the ash tray. They overpower the entire image.

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  2. nicoleslawSeptember 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM

    I like that you approached your piece realistically because that is always something that I am anxious about doing, so kudos for being brave enough to try it. I like that you incorporated everyday objects because I always find them very inviting in art pieces. Everything is very clear, and most of the cropping is done very well (especially around the salt and pepper shakers). The shadow at the bottom of the ash tray is well done. Also, the leaves in the background make the piece feel like it was taken in the daylight, and all of the different objects seem to work well in making it feel that way too.

    As far as composition goes, I would say that the salt and pepper shakers would be the most bold part of it because they are the largest, but the matches are above them, and my eye doesn't really know exactly where to go when I'm looking at this. I think that there is too much of a division right in the middle of the piece, and the objects don't seem to be actually sitting on the surface that you have placed them on. The lighting on all of the objects is different (the lighting on the side of the ash tray is different from the frog ornament, which does not have as direct lighting on it), and the objects are all of different sharpness levels (the salt and pepper shakers, background, and the brown texture they're resting on are all very clear while the matches, ash tray, and frog are more fuzzy). I would have also liked to see something altered in the image done with blending modes or maybe altering colors. I think that if you did do a little bit of manipulation like that, it would have made the piece feel more playful and ambiguous so as to not be able to see some of the weaknesses.

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  3. theNDSeptember 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM

    You did a really awesome job cropping around your images, so kudos for that. The frog gives your piece a nice, relaxing, loungy feel. It makes me feel happy. But I think it also makes me want to smoke (hehe).

    I think perhaps rearranging the objects and playing with scale could add visual interest. When I look at different images of the piece, my eyes lock to that section. Like when I look at the salt and pepper, I'm only seeing the salt and pepper. Because it doesn't lead my eyes anywhere else, I don't know where to look next. So maybe adding an element which will create flow within the piece would be more visually pleasing.

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  4. andrewSeptember 17, 2009 at 12:02 PM

    Like everyone else has said, your ability to neatly crop the images is a definite strongpoint. I like that you incorporated unrelated objects.

    The one concern I had was the varying levels of intensity and atmosphone from each of the items. The salt and pepper shakers really stand out, both from brightness and size in relation to the other pieces. My attention is immediately focused on them, but there doesn't seem to be a correlation to the rest of the items.

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