Organic Texture

Artist's Statement:

For this assignment we were instructed to take a picture of organic texture and then edit it. After given the project I made a couple sketches of the water, leafs and close up pictures of nature. I took a picture of all three of the ideas and noticed that the one of the ocean had more organic texture than the other 2 so I decided to do the ocean one. After I chose the photo I edited it just in my camera roll and made it sharper and added more contrast and saturation to it.

After doing that I put it into photoshop so that I could get rid of the bridge in the photo because that isn't organic texture. In order to get rid of the bridge I had to use the crop tool and brush tool. I used to crop tool to make the bridge disappear and then I used the brush tool to touch up where I removed the bridge so that you couldn't see. After I did that I realized that the sky was messed up and you could see that I removed something so I decided to crop the whole photo and make it smaller so that you wouldn't see that the sky was messed up. I have never used anything in photoshop except the blur tool so this was a very good experience and a good way to learn things. For this photo I didn't have much of an inspiration but I've always seen photos that are taken at a low angle so you can get more details and I've always wanted to try it and before I took this photo I realized I would be able to catch a very good moment from taking it at a low angle which in this photo I got very good detail of the water and even caught the moment of a wave in the background. This photo also connects to one of my inquiry questions which is how I can include nature in my photos and that's what I did with this photo.

If I could change anything about this photo I would change the way I caught it. By that, I mean I wish I could've took a better photo with a more interesting moment like a big wave or a big wave forming. Other than that, I think it came out very good and the way I took it was a good idea and really shows detail and texture. I also would of liked to use color selection in the photo but in this photo there wasn't that much I could use to make stand out more because the ocean and sky basically go with each other and those were the only two things in the photo. Overall, I think it was a good photo to use and edit.