NRA gitter done

These two concepts I came up with using my photo of an airsoft pistol that I have. One of which would be sort of a public service announcement/ advertisment for the NRA in which it would be insighting people to defend the constitution adn the amendment stating the right to bear arms. The second concept was to be more of an advertisment for the airsoft gun itself and upon looking at it closer, i realize it would be more fit for a website than for printed media. Ive decided to rework and combine both pieces to make a happy medium between the two and something that will work better in print than on screen

Recycle Ad

This is one of the thumbnail examples of a public service announcement advertisment that I considered doing for one of my projects. Instead, I decided to make it a service advertisement and replace the Recycle logo with a TrueGreen/Chemlawn logo. Since I already have an idea for a publick service announcement it seemed more logical to utilize this photo and make it a service advertisment. I plan on reshooting the exact location now in the spring to really show the blossom and bloom and the vitality of the greenage.

Drunk Driving PSA

A very powerful ad about the consequences of drunk driving. Although the ad doesnt say 'This is what will happen to you" it instead allows the viewer to ponder on the message that the poster displays showing a before and after photo of this particular person. It is a strong advertising technique that recently has been used more and more especially for anti smoking campaigns. The gruesome imagery really conveys the point.

Love space

Great example of using positive and negative space and good use of models to coordinate in sync to produce a good visual of the word LOVE. the word is subtle yet totally obvious once youre eye is attracted to the positive space. Great shot in a perfect time of day that really gets that sunny i love you feel to it. great shot in my opinion.

Scary

I found this photo and I immediately was flashed back to my childhood and the imagery reminded me of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books that I used to read as a kid. The images in those books were so profound and detailed and scary that I will never forget them, and I find it interesting that this artists photograpy manipulation is so reminiscent of those illustrations. I dont know if it was intentional but I definitely relate to this photo on that basis. Below are examples of the illustrations found in the Scary Stories books.

Focus of Beauty

Actual photo of waterfall using tilt shift photography. I love this photo because its real and the view at which its taken really makes you wonder what perspective its take at.. because the river looks so close and small and yet the size of the people make it look so huge. The out of focus waterfall adds to the beauty andy serenity of the piece.

Victor Enrich Architectual genius

Photoshop manipulation and effects created by Victor Enrich, a Spanish photographer who "rips all the science from architecture to create surreal and whimsical variations on existing buildings. A tower unzips, a road goes straight up, and multi-story slides protrude from balconies. These buildings cannot possibly exist, but in a sense, they do."

Type-o-graph me

I found this to be a great example of photomanipulation and typography. The piece was obviously created by using an existing photograph or picture and then the type was put ovver top of it and manipulated and formed in such a way that to resemble somewhat of a Monet paitning in which you wouldnt know the differece between this and a real photo if you squinted your eyes.

You Like My Hair?

I thought this to be a great example of advertising. While creating a magazing for my publication design class, we had to make a page or two consisting of advertisments. In doing research of advertisements I found this hilarious advertisment for a hair product by a company called Tomei. I think it is a great example of how humour can be used in advertisments in order to get the viewer to remember the ad and to think about it.

Plastic Life

This is one example of great photography that I found on an international graphic design sign and this one from a French designer. "Plastic Life" The microworld imagined by French photographer Vincent Bousserez is now captured in print with his new book, Plastic Life. In placing factory manufactured figurines amongst real life surroundings, he creates ironic and poetic scenes using macro photography. The results are tiny people that are dominated by the surrounding world of lifeless giant objects."

Architectural Photomanipulation

I thought this was a great example of how photoshop can make the real seem surreal and vice versa. This is another example of work done by the artist Victor Enrich, who takes real life architecture and manipulates photographs to create a surreal existence.

 Victor Enrich is a Spanish photographer who rips all the science from architecture to create surreal and whimsical variations on existing buildings. A tower unzips, a road goes straight up, and multi-story slides protrude from balconies. These buildings cannot possibly exist, but in a sense, they do.

Photo Manipulation at its best

I thought this was a fantastice example of using photoshop to bend and shape realism to make it surrealism. in this picture the man is splitting his face and as if flippig the pages in a book, he his flipping his face and displaying several media. I think this is a great example of photo manipulation and im quite impressed by the smoothness by which the skin and media are combined. its very realistic and really creates interest.

Photoshop the Ketchup

Great example of a good advertisment that was made through creative photoshop work. The ad is supposed to signify that Heinz ketchup is all natural and made mostly of tomatoes when we all know that its like 75 percent tomato and the rest is sugar and water and god knows what else. but the ad really conveys the point by displaying the ketchup bottle as bein made up of slices of tomatoes. good example of advertising and photo manipulation.

Obesity is Suicide

I think this is a good example of advertising being it sends a dreary and powerful message about the conssequences of obesity. I think even without the words "obesity is suicide" it would get the point across on the visual alone. Its good photography like this can get the point across without words because visuals speak louder.

Photography B&W and Color

I love these two photographs of people from Africa. I really love how both pictures are very serious phtoographs, in that both the subjects have a look of seriousness on their face. The artist has perpetualted this feeling by translating the photos into blakc and white and then firthermore adding a grungey feel to them by utilizing a grungey green and grafitti look to it.

Great Use of Typography in Ad

Great use of typography in an advertisment. The advertisement is clearly about verbal abuse on children, but employs a great element of visual typography that reall gets the point across. Without any tagline, the viewer would get the point of this advertisment simpley by looking at the hand choking the child, then seeing whats written within the hand and get the point immediately

Cat Logo

I thought this was a great logo because it shows an almost detailed depiction of a cat within the negative space but it doesnt take away from the legibility of the word "cat" that is being spelled out in the logo, I think it is a fantastic example of positive and negative space being utilized within a logo that makes it both interesting and gets the point across.

Burger King is Healthy?

Burger King's  Get a Tasty New Look advertisemtn campagin. The Burger Kings makeover Campaign is a diversion advertisemtn tactic that seems to tackle a problem or issue, but then throws in an emotional distraction. So they claim that Burger King is much healther now, offering salads and such hence how the green in the eyelashes is the most pronounced feature of the visual.

Aqua Complex

This is a great example of graphic visualization and concept design combined with the actual architecture and construction of such a building. The Aqua Condominum Building in Chicago. Balconies vary slightly from floor to floor, giving the building incredible movement and simulated the rippling effect that can be seen underwater, hence its name the aqua building.

Machinery

Object photo

This is my product photo that I wanted to use for project 3. I really wanted to use another object but I think that the gun would be good if I can get the right angle and perspective on it. I also need to work on the lighting on the object and I need to give the object a little more room to breathe because a consumer wants to see the whole gun, not just a cropping of it. I think that if i can get the right perspective and lighting it would be a great shot and the gun has a lot of imperfections that I can touch up on photoshop to make it look more realistic.

Still life

this is my still life photo that I took for the midterm. I got really lucky with this picture because there was already a still life set up in a classroom that I decided to venture into. I think the objects were great for this because of the reflected light and their bright colors. I really liked this image although i didnt use it for the midterm because of the composition and the direction of it leading from foreground to background.

Model

This is my model shot for project 3 in digital photography. I cropped out my model from the original image and used the healing brush to get rid of age spots and imperfections in the skin and then used the clone stamp tool to get rid of the awkward bright spot that was created by the break in the tree line. I originally was going to crop it out but found it much easier to just use the clone stamp to create more trees.

Color Basket

This is a picture that I took in photography class for the photo shoot. I brought it in to photoshop and played with the levels but what i really like most about this photo is the closeness of it and the texture and detail it shows. I like how its difficult to tell at first what its a picture of and the mystery is part of what makes it so interesing as well as the bright purple object in the background.

Simple Matchbook

I was looking for old product imagery from the 1970s and found this picture of a matchbook that i thought was really simple but interesting. I like how it uses dull colors like most products you would see in that era and the simplistic imagery of the match and the flame.

Ominous tracks

This was anther picture I found on a photography website that I really liked because of its ominous and gloomy feel that it portrays. I like how the black has been darkened and the light of the rails have been brought out for some interesting contrast. It also creates the direction of the piece because your eye is naturally focused on the contrasted rail and you follow it throughout the piece.

Article Brief

This is my two page spread article brief for my publication design magazine. I wanted to make it look like a review for an upcoming game that you would find in any gaming magazine. The only problem was that I had to make an infographic for the top right that would fit well with the rest of the article. The ther issue with this is that the background color should be a dark black but I cant for the life of me get it to show up that way when I save it as a jpeg or pdf.

Garden Sculpture

I thought this was a great example of 3D artwork and design that I really wanted to put on my blog because its so huge and the concept is incredible. combining all of these colors and foliage to create a really interesting scultpure that i can only imagine takes a lot of maintaining. The photo is great because it really shows you the magnitude of this sculpture and how gigantic it is because the people are so smalled compared to it and you can see the railing.