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Border Variations
Above is an Animoto of the 10 different borders I created for this photo. Because you can't see the borders very well on the Animoto I will also show you the individual pictures below.
#1: This is the original photo taken at Mt. St. Helens in Washington.
#2: This is a traditional black frame. There is black in the picture.
#3: This was a white beveled matte border that I liked and I felt it did not take away from the colors in the picture.
#4: This was my favorite which is a metal edge which you wouldn't think would go well with a nature picture but I liked it, possibly contrasting somewhat with the picture.
#5: Here I created a slight shadow as the border.
#6: This was a blended soft edge.
#7: This was a strong soft edge.
#8: For this I chose a green border that was within the the green in the picture and it would be next to green in the color wheel so it would be an analagous color and would not stand out from the colors of the picture. Then I rounded the edges and it has a reflection of the picture.
#9: This has a pink glow as a border.
#10: This has a purple picked up from a hue of purple in the picture and put in as a partial border with a partial glow.
Color Echo
Below are three different creations using the same photograph that was taken at Sandy Hook. The first uses a light green and white taken from the picture along with Informal Roman script. The second uses a light brown taken from the dirt in the picture with the script in Kristen ITC. The third uses a light yellow taken from the flower along with a brown from the dirt for the script which is in Vladamir Script. The second two photographs were done on Aviary Phoenix Image Editor which I reviewed for still media.
Nature Park 2.egg on Aviary.
Nature Park #3.egg on Aviary.Typographic Conveyance
Pillow was done with a Batang font with a blue grey color and pillow shape surrounding the text.
XXL was done in XXL size font, Wide Latin, vertical on the page.
Brick was Wide Latin with a brick texture within the letters.
Atoms was done with a Chiller font with text effects to the font.
Lightly was done in Freestyle Script in white with a glow effect.
Shred was done in Algerian text with a reflection on the text as well as a dotted outline.
Hi Jeri,
ReplyDeleteI really like what you did with the border exercise, especially that you put the images into a video for us using animoto! The choice of joyful music made just looking at the pictures more interesting. I am always so impressed that you use so many of your own pictures - you inspire me to take more pictures! I also agree with you that the metal border was the favorite - I like your comment that the sharpness of the metal border contrasted with the natural feel of the picture. I also like that that particular border did not distract from the image itself, but rather enhanced it. Well done!
Hi Jeri,
ReplyDeleteYour choice of music for the Animoto was perfect for the flowers! My favorite frame was #6. I'm in a mystical, fantastic mind set this evening. My sister sent some pictures to me of tree-trunk artistry. I had never heard of it before. Some sculptors create naturalistic, lifelike creatures carved out of tree trunks. One in particular looked as though a magical creature had encountered the White Witch of Narnia and had been cast under a spell. That's what I thought of when I saw #6 above!
I love your BRICK conveyance! How did you get the brick design into the font? I struggled, gave up, and put it behind the letters...
Christine,
ReplyDeleteOK, I had to figure out how I did it. I did Brick on PowerPoint in Wide Latin. Go to format, go to A with the line under it, go to texture, go to more textures, select picture or texture fill, go to clip art, type in brick and double click on picture of the brick. You don't select the text first and I think the text has to be big enough and thick enough to fill.
Jeri
Hi Jeri,
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job in all these posts. I particularly like how you got the blurred edges for the one frame. I tried to do something like that, but I had a hard time. In terms of your color echoes, I really liked how the background of the second one looked like a natural paper or cardboard in keeping with the natural theme. Then the green picked up the colors in the photo. Nice work!
Hi Jeri,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your taking the time to create the Animoto video, as well as going back and posting each picture separately, so that we could see the borders that much more clearly. I liked that you presented the assignment both ways, and agree with Ellen that the music selection was entirely appropriate for your video.
I think it's GREAT that you use your own photos when you do these assignments. I'm glad to see you're an inspiration for others as a result! I agree with you that the metal border would normally be a strange choice for a picture such as this, but it *does* work. I noticed the more that I looked at it, the more the right hand side of border seemed to be "pointed" while the rest of the border seemed to blend in, looking similar to a shadow-like border.
I'm glad to see that you're using programs you reviewed for the MDMC project! I know that you felt limited with this assignment in a sense because you didn't have Photoshop (per your comment to De Bora on her blog), but I think you definitely did a great job with the resources you had at your disposal!
For the typographic conveyance portion of your post, you did a great job of illustrating the text. "Lightly" was my favorite representation.
Great job!