Design

In Design, because all of our classes at Freestyle are connected, we were asked to create a book jacket for our narrative story we wrote in English. For this, I used both Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. With the given template in Design, I transferred the dimensions of each slice of the book jacket and used them in Photoshop. I then designed each part of the jacket in Photoshop. Once I had finished that, I just pasted in each part into the template in InDesign. Click on the thumbnail to view my Book Jacket

Apart from our book jacket for our narrative story from english, we also created a surrealist piece involving HDR photography. For this piece solely used Adobe Photoshop to create my piece. Click on the thumbnail to view my Surrealist Art.

In my surrealist piece, I have a white flower as my focal point. My metamorphosis in this piece is in the flower with a lit candle extending out of the center of it. Surrounding the flower is a morning sky and around that morning sky is a transition into a starry night sky. Instead of just adjusting the brightness around the candle, I chose to have two skies surround it. The morning sky is supposed to represent the candle illuminating the scene. I created my piece using Adobe Photoshop. In this piece, I included three edited HDR photos. I chose to use a macro lense to bring out all of the small details in the flower. Because I was using a macro lense, I had to get up close to my subject and so I wasn’t able to use a tripod. This made it a little difficult to take my three pictures with different exposures because I wasn’t able to keep all three photos completely in line. Once I had the right pictures, I edited them in Photoshop using the Camera Raw Filter. For the background, I took a circular selection of the morning sky I took and placed beneath the flower and above the picture of the night sky. I then used the gradient tool to have the two skies merge into one another.

In this piece, I wanted to convey the message that everything has their own light despite the lack of “light” or knowledge you have about them/it. The flower is illuminating the starry night sky that surrounds it into a bright, morning sky. The color scheme I chose was a triad color scheme consisting of oranges, greens, and blues. I chose this color scheme accordingly to my objects in the piece. The reason I chose to have a candle in a flower is because flowers are usually looked at as delicate objects while fire is looked at as a wild, destructive element. I chose to use these two objects due to their contradicting characteristics. The narrative in this piece is the candle that found its light.