Clone Wars

The strongest part of my finished art piece is the different positions I am in. I feel like the different positions and actions add to my piece by making it more interesting. I also like the setting i chose because no ones background will look like mine. The people who chose to take pictures in the school may have a weaker art piece because its boring and less unique. The visual part of my art piece that could be improved upon in the edges of me because some of them don't look blended enough. Because the person who took my pictures moved so much it made it difficult for me to keep everything aligned. However, i could fix this blending issue by increasing the hardness of my brush and going over the spots that need blending. To create this piece i use the paint brush, layer masks, my phone camera, and google drive. I used the paint brush to paint holes through each layer so i could reveal me underneath. I used layer masks so i could layer each photo on to each other and then expose the clones with the paint brush. I used my pone camera to take 30 pictures of me to choose from for the clone project and then i used google drive by downloading all the pictures from my phone. I chose google drive because it allowed me to better preserve the quality of the picture.

The easiest part about this project was taking and downloading the pictures. This was easy because the task was very straight forward and once taking my pictures and downloading my pictures only took about 45 minutes or so all together. The difficult part of this project was lining up my pictures and making the piece look real. While i was lining my pictures up i would notice that i had to change the size a lot and it was very difficult to make everything line up. Once i have the lamp lined up the table would be off. Also making it look real was a challenge because every time i cleaned up the edges i could tell  where the line between the original photo and the new photo was.

My effort towards the activity was good because although i was absent a lot during this project i was still able to complete the project on time and i worked efficiently and stayed focused.  I also have submitted all my work including the contact sheet, the finished piece and this reflection. The craftsman ship of editing quality is decent. There are some sections of my work that could be improved however in general the finished product looks real. Also this reflection has been answered completely and answers each question in complete sentences. If i could do this assignment again i would most likely chose a different time of day to take the pictures. Although i do like where i took the picture, the lighting is a little dark. On a scale from 1 to 10 i would rate my effort as a 10 because  worked very hard with the limited time i had to create a piece that looks realistic.