1. Looking at my midterm and final, I would say my biggest accomplishment is learning to successfully work with stock images. I'd never really done any pieces with stock images before. It sure is annoying finding good stock images. I learned a lot about how to work with stock images and how to piece them together to look like one picture. The final was actually easier than the midterm because I used less stock images. I thought it would be hard to turn a day picture into night, but it wasn't so bad. I like using lighti
ng and thinking about how the light hits the things around it. Both pieces turned out better than I expected and I'm really happy with them.2. Umm, this question is sort of similar to the first question. I would say working with stock images was the most challenging thing I did, and my biggest accomplishment. I didn't really "master" it though. Putting them together in the piece is not the hard part, finding pictures that can fit toge
ther and go along with your vision is the hard part. But good stock images are hard to find on google. Other than that nothing was really "difficult." I'll just talk about my other projects too, and what was sorta of hard when making them, cause otherwise I'll just end up talking about the midterm and final the whole time.Text is definitely annoying to work with. On the Harry Potter magazine it t
ook me forever to get the text to be readable and stand out, since the background was kinda busy. The second quiz, the colored image of Lucille Ball, wasn't really that hard. I'd actually never colorized an image before then, but I've known how to do it for a long time. I just sort of figured you use color blending mode. I like colorizing though, it's fun. On the third quiz, the fixed image of a mall, I actually had to extend part of the purse rack in the upper left because it got ripped off a little bit. I had to use the clone stamp on what was originally there. It was reall
y annoying, but it looks ok I think. As for the fourth quiz, the greaseheart poster, this is actually my least favorite of all the pieces. I didn't really have a good idea for it other than the quote. It certainly doesn't compare to the "Dirty Dancing with Wolves" poster.3. I'm just gonna talk about the midterm and final again here. I'm not really sure what the question is asking. I would say my midterm and final are the perfect examples of creatin
g meaning out of random images. I mean I took various stock images and pieced them together to form a picture. I'm not sure how to compare and contrast that. Not sure what "not being just a showcase of technique" means either. I would say my pieces aren't just showcasing techniques, cause I use a lot of random techniques in each piece. None of them focus on one technique except the mall picture, since I used the clone stamp almost exclusively there.
