Week 5

In order to begin this assignment I first decided which picture of Old Town I wanted as my background image. I decided the one in this photo because I wanted an image that gave me space to add objects and have it look like a natural scene. I also chose this one because of the way the statue is a different color than the rest of the photo. I began to look through my other photos and see where I could crop people out and add them to this background page. Old Town was quite a busy area so I figured because the town was so busy I would make this scene full of people. The project was to have the people in the piece catch your eye first. We were shown many ways in order to accomplish the task of drawing the viewers eye to one main idea. I felt that I accomplished this in a way by blurring the background; I used the gaussian blur in order to have the background be less dominate because of the darkness of the background. One thing that should be different in this piece is how small the people were; unless you are looking at the piece right in front of you the only thing that catches your eye is the statue. But I needed to be able to catch your attention with people from far or near. I need to create a background that is less dominate and draw your eyes to one person in particular. As well as these suggestions I need to also touch up the way my people are cut out; some have mishaped edges and parts from the originial picture that need to be erased. The craft of the poeple are a bit poor. I needed people for the project and I found I took very few pictures with people in them, so the ones I used are from a distance.