A while back in CyberArts class, our teacher gave us a task to do. We had to make a Black and White Plus 1 picture using Adobe Photoshop.
In the beginning of the year our class went out to the school's garden and started taking photos of what looked interesting to us. After that we came back o the classroom and uploaded the photos. I took a lot of photos but we only had to chose 10 for a blog review ( which I will also post) and take one from the 10 and start creating our Black and White Plus 1 picture.
It was hard to chose just one photo to transform it to a new photo. But I ended up choosing this photo. In the beginning this picture was a bright orange with a dull green colour in the background. To make it black and white I used the greyscale filter. The black and white still looked a little dull and it didn't have enough contrast so what I did is I stared playing around with the levels to darken up the darks and brighten up the lights. When I liked how the black and white turned out I finally got to work on the plus one. Hmm I wonder what the plus one means.... I'm kidding with all of you. For my plus one ( which is adding colour) I made the flower have colour because the flower is the main vocal point of the photo. I coloured it and filled it in. It originally was just orange. I like having vibrant colours in my art work so I played with the colour pallet and it just make the orange more vibrant. The I discover that if I went beyond the flower it turned into a bright eye catching magenta. That's basically all I had to do.
So making this photo was challenging but fun to do. I hope you enjoyed this piece of art :)
For our last CyberARTS tech assignment we had to create our own Digital Surrealism Photo with a story behind it.
The story behind this photo is about my younger brother who gets bullied. Every day my brother comes home looking sad. Right away he tells me what happens at school. People call him weird or different, a loser. All these name that he should not be called. When i went to school with him he May have looked happy on the outside, but what really matters is on the inside. I feel bad that my brother and so many children in the world have to face this everyday.
My message is even though they may seem fine on the outside but they're truly dying on the inside. My title is Called "Stays Within" because every time you call someone for example a loser, that will stay with that person forever. Some kids end up committing suicide to themselves because of how much pain they go through.
For those of you who are reading this, chose wisely of what you're going to call a person. One day it might even kill u that you called that person that. Even though it may be funny to you, it may not be funny to the person you're calling. You have to understand that other people have feelings. They may be weird in you eyes but to other people they're everything.
Now on to the details of the photo. I chose that background because I wanted to look like someone is walking. I obviously used some people in my photo . Each of these people represents something. The "lonely boy" represents my brother. he is the main vocal point in this photo because this is about him. The reason why he's looking down with no emotion on his face because he feels alone and he's just thinking about what people called him and how they looked him and how humiliated he was. The 2 groups faded in the background represented the bullies. They're laughing and pointing at him because of how different the " lonely boy" was. I've seen people done that to my brother and not only it hurt him, it hurt me just to see what people do to him. The words represented What people have called him. To be honest he breaks down because of it. Those word won't go away, they will never go away. He will try to hide it but it will always say within him.
That is the story/ message behind my photo.
This is also dedicated to my brother. ( if you are reading this)
