Project 3 Photodesign

 

1. Description: For this project we needed to learn basic photography skills, pick a color scheme and then take photos that correspond with that color, use Photoshop to edit the picture and create a poster layout with an original photo.

2. Process (Programs, Tools, Skills, FOCUS principles): I spend a lot of time in the Scroll office and these three ceramic pieces are things I look at often. I wanted to photograph and I picked my color scheme around them. To be honest I had three or four different color schemes I wanted to try and I settled on the analogous with orange, gold and brick. To take the photo I used my friend Lindsey’s t3i Canon Rebel. I had fun trying to work that camera. I love the look that the natural light has on the ceramic pieces I photographed. After I finished taking the pictures I downloaded them and edited them in Photoshop. The specific editing techniques I used were: levels, sharpness, saturation and color balance. While using Photoshop “command t” became my best friend as well as my coworker Willy, since he is a Photoshop guru. I had drafted multiple layouts for this photo and some of them depressed me. I had a ridiculously hard time with Photoshop but I made it through! I had planned to list the colors of the swatches with in the rectangles themselves but I liked having the small squares on the left of the picture. I wanted to use the rectangles because it would work well with the ceramic piece that had lines on it. I believe it contrasts well with the other two pieces that have no specific set of lines.

3. Message: I wanted a poster that would be for the BYU-Idaho ceramics group. I also wanted to make sure my color scheme to show my understanding of the color wheel.

4. Audience: BYU-Idaho students who like ceramics

5. Top Thing Learned: I learned how to take pictures with a DSLR camera, photographing things around a specific color scheme and how function while using Photoshop.

6. Color scheme and color names: My color scheme is analogous. The colors I use are gold, brick and orange.

7. Title Font Name & Category: Century Gothic Sans Serif

8. Copy Font Name & Category: Century Gothic Sans Serif

9. Thumbnail of original, unedited image inserted

Date and location you took the photo(s): Feb. 5, 2015 in the Scroll Office in the Spori