Another photography idea

I wanted to have two contrasting places put together. An image I found of a drawing of a city on a hand gave me an idea.
I began to sketch an idea into my book which I could later paint onto my hand and take photographs outside among the trees, flowers, ect.

Unfortunately, as soon as I got outside, it started to rain! So I could not get many good shots.
My painting then began to run, it was cold and it had gotten dark.



EDITED

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Paramore

I found this interesting because the text on this image is the title/some lyrics from Paramores song; 'The Only Exception'. They are an artist I am very likely to have on the final CD.

Soon after seeing the first image, i saw this one. I thought I could put the lyrics to some songs behind a cityscape, or just somewhere on the image I photograph.

More edits!

*NOT MY PHOTOGRAPH*
Found on 'www.weheartit.com'.

I was looking for more photography ideas, and I found this picture. I really liked it, so I wanted to photoshop it to look abit weird. I love the 3D effect on it. It is something I'd really like to put on the final piece.

Inspiration for photography

I have chosen this picture because I think it is something I could recreate, or create something similar due to the surroundings of where I live being mostly trees.

I can edit these particular effects onto it on photoshop, and brighten the colours to make it look more tropical like it does on here.

The only thing I don't like is the bins at the bottom. You need to look at the picture properly to see them, but it makes the picture look a littleless professionally-taken, and without them I think it would look like it was taken in a rainforest.



I like this picture because it is something I can do again. Although it is completely different to the first pictures I took, I think with the right look on the girls it could look good. I can easily add the 3D effect on photoshop.

The problem would be getting a picture that I really like.


Again, I like this one because the surrounding are similar to around my house (especially the bare trees, as it is now winter when I am editing this post.) and it looks very simple and beautiful.

I'm not sure how I could add these effects, I would need to research it online but it is something I have wanted to learn to do for a while because they can make a photograph look abit magical.

I like this one because it is taken on a beautiful, almost cloudless day and it is very simple,but effective.

If I were to recreate this, I would look at the work of Mike Farrell (Graphic Designer for Fearless Records and his typography, some music-related quotes.

This would be alot more complicated to recreate as it is an amazing piece of art and a very intricate drawing.
It would take a long time and I would need a good idea for what to draw. I may draw one as a draft to get feedback on.

Edit Feedback!

Feedback

I think this feedback is very useful because it has some improvements I can make. (Colours round each band member/ more suitable text.) The text was a little rushed, and I should have looked for a new font. I will also need to figure out how to give each of them an individual colour. I plan to make these improvements next week.

Also, fans of the band have said it is very good which is what I wanted to happen. It shows I did a good job on the edit and got the right kind of style for the band.

Photoshop Editting!

I decided to do some edits for the 2nd side of the CD. I chose some pop artists and tried to make an album cover from them.

I liked the first edit alot. This is One Direction that have been very successful after Xfactor.
I think this is a picture snapped of them when they were simply walking down the street. They probably weren't expecting it. If they were having a picture taken for an album cover, they would probably go to a proper photoshoot, but I still thought this was a good photo to use.
Firstly, I wanted to put the focus on the band. I lasso'd the band and changed the hue to a green colour. I then outlined the band with orange, because I think it clashes with green and should make the stand out. I then decided I wanted it to look like their picture had been cut out and stuck on there. I did this by adding a shadow.
Another way I made them stand out was to blur and change the background. I used a 'wind' effect after blurring. This also effect the image of the band, but I didn't change it because I thought it looked good.

Photography

Today I was thinking about ideas for the album covers. It was a nice day, so I thought I'd go out and get started on the alternative side of the CD.
I saw my brothers guitar and thought about going out to take pictures of that in places in the area I live. To make this more interesting, I painted onto the guitar. When I was painting the design onto the guitar, I wanted it to be colourful and simple, but have a 'happy' feel to it. At first I painted round my hands and added patterns into the middle of them. I then thought that it was too busy and I didn't like the patterns. I got a cloth and washed it off. When trying again, I decided that just painting the hand shapes one colour would be enough. The dots/splats around it were added because I thought that part of the guitar looked empty but I didn't want to add swirls or flowers.
Here is a picture of what it looked like at the end;
I will probably do a few different designs on it because I like this idea alot. I may take this guitar to lots of different places and try to find a really interesting place for it.


I have tried out editing afew of the pictures I took of the guitar. These are my favorites so far;

I like this one because you get a good look at the patterns I painted on this guitar. I also like it because it's colourful but simple. It's simple because it doesn't have a complicated background or too much going on, it's just a guitar with hands painted on.
One thing I wish wasn't on there was the spot of light at the bottom. It doesn't ruin the photo and probably wouldn't make it tonnes better, but I still wish it wasn't there.

I like this one alot, mainly because it's at an unusual angle.
I edited the lighting and it's made the guital look a nicer colour than it actually is. I think it gives it a nice early autumn feel, where the first picture gives a summer-y feel. From research I've done, alot of compilation CDs often feature the season they have been released in. Although this wasn't my intention when taking the pictures, I'm glad I thought of the idea of putting some fallen leaves over the guitar.
You can't see the pattern very well because of the leaves covering the bottom of the guitar, but I like how it's covered the main part of the pattern and only showing the spots at the top. The photo might have looked too busy with the pattern, leaves, grass and neck of the guitar all in it.

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