Week 4: Collage Rough Draft

Craft
Using Photoshop, we were to combine at least one person, one place, and one object from the photos that we took previously to form a collage. As for the place, I chose the park because I thought it was the best shot and used it for the background or setting. However, stretching the image to fit the paper distorted its resolution too much so I left it alone which effected its small size upon printing. For the person, I chose the crossing guard. The quality of the photo was one of the worst but I thought it was one of the easiest to cut out. I was still in a state of practice mode. As for the object, I chose the pear. I chose it because it was the best one that I cut out and we needed at least one unexpected or ironic aspect in our composition.
Compostion
The compostion itself is small due to the lack of resizing the background image. The crossing guard was rescaled to fit the scale of the foreground as well as the pear which was rescaled and left large in comparison with the crossing guard and park setting. The pear was duplicated and rescaled so there were three overall and the each were overlapped to make some depth. The pear in the front was brightened and the pear in the back was darkened to enhance the illusion. However, the sunlight in the background photo is different from the sunlight in brightness and direction from the crossing guard and the pear.

Concept

Mostly I was just practicing when initially making the collage, and lost focus on thinking of a concept especially with the photos that I had to work with. What I plan on doing is changing the background entirely to a different image as well as the crossing guard. I have a picture of a shopper with a cart instead and I thought that a concept could either be about concerns of genetically altered food or the wasted surplus of produce in America. The concept as it is now does not really have any meaning except for a bit of irony in that there are giant pears with a crossing guard.