Tiny Spherical Worlds

Compositing images is when you combine two or more images to be edited in a way that it looks like one image, instead of several parts of a whole image. I think compositing images is used for creating interesting pictures. That looks abstract. But yet professional. One image is not enough to composite an image. To composite an image, you need more than one image. You can edit just one picture and leave it, or you can use multiple images to create a really creative picture! Also you need multiple images so that it can bring depth to your image when you composite images. Personally I can definitely tell if an image was made out of multiple images, and when it is made from one plain image.

There is a really slight difference between a spherical pano, and a polar pano. Though these two image styles look alike they are different in many ways. One way these two images are different is because the have different polar coordinates. You may be able to tell if the picture is a spherical pano or a polar pano by the way the pictures look when you are done putting in the polar coordinates. You will be able to see the point where the two ends meet. The polar pano is the image that looks like the foreground of your pano is the planet/world or whatever you want to call it. The spherical pano is when the sky looks like the ground, and the ground looks like the sky. Another thing that makes the polar and spherical pano different is the way you edit them to turn them into you worlds. When you are in photoshop making your polar, before you click to polar coordinates. You actually have to go to image<image rotation<180`. Making sure to do this is very important because turning your polar up-side down before you hit polar coordinates will definitely make it look different from the spherical. For the spherical pano  you will need to skip the image rotation so that you will be able to achieve that inside-out world affect.

I think that my finished "tiny worlds" are convincing enough. I think so because the pictures I took were of landscapes that I personally see everyday. It's not too over the top, to the point where it's someplace so exotic and fancy. I think my pictures the perfect landscapes that show who I am and where I grew up. Also I think that my "tiny worlds" are convincing because I didn't over edit them. When I say over edit I mean taking a picture and turning it into something to over the top, to where the picture looks totally different from when you first took the picture. While I was editing I was trying pretty hard not to over due my picture. Even though the landscapes that I took was beautiful. It still needed a lot of help. I tried to take the pictures in a golden hour. Which is when the sunset casts a beautiful light. But it didn't show up that well in the pictures I took. It kinda looked pretty dark to me. So with some editing with the help of adobe bridge I lightened the picture up. I also did a little bit of tinting to add some surrealism. But in the end my two spherical and polar panos turned out just the way I wanted them to turn out. CONVINCING!

Hockney Style Joiners

Some ways that David Hockney's photomontages are different from mine is that he probably put more thought into what he was taking his montage of. Another reason why I think that his montages are different from mine is because of the quality of his work. I think that it is different because of the quality because he probably had a lot of time to do his montage and think about what he was doing, and we only had like a couple days to think what we were going to take a picture of. Also I think that His photomontages are different from mine because his is more professional. He put a lot of thought into it. He took pictures that expressed something about himself or things that happen around him. I just think that his pictures are really deep, His pictures have a lot of meaning.

Images can send so much different messages to so much different people. For example if someone took a picture of someone helping out a stray dog then that would send me positive messages/vibes, v.s if someone took pictures of people neglecting their dog then that would send me negative messages/vibes. Do you see what I mean? Images can send so much messages. Thats why I think that when you take a picture make sure to think about what you are taking a picture of. If you just take a random picture and don't think about it first then people are going to get confused about what kind of messages you are sending. Some people might get some positive messages and some people might get some negative messages.

For my final image the message I want for my audience to get is that they are like flowers. There are many flowers. There are also many kinds of flowers. But every single flower is one of a kind just like everyone in this world. I am hoping that my audience gets the right message. The positive one. Another message I hope my audience gets is that even though there are people that think your not like other people and think you are different then don't take it hard. Embrace it, because I would rather be different and shine in my own light than be a follower and be the shadow of someone else.