After attempting to do my neighborhood project idea, some complications arose and I decided I would be better off photographing my bedroom. My concept for this is to show the progression of light in my room from morning to night. Starting on the left, early in the morning, and ending on the right, with late at night. I did this because my bedroom is where I spend of lot of my time doing homework and making my art, so it has been somewhat of a safe-haven for me. I experience it at all these different times of day. The color of light in my room is different throughout the day and it creates a different feeling in my room. I also chose to add the doorway into my room on the far left to make it feel as if you are about to walk into my room. I added a small peek of my bathroom on the right to add a little more depth of experience of my room.

To make this piece, I took 2 or three top to bottom photos of my room at different points in the day, starting with the dark early morning hours. Then I adjusted the lighting and contrast in each photo so one could easier understand the time of day in each column of photos. Then I began piecing the photos together, choosing to give the panorama a skewed compositional angle for interest. I added a drop shadow to my doorway and bathroom to pull the photos forward showing that they are different areas.

Here's a rough beginning to my Space and Time Raster project. This is basically what I want to do. These photos were taken with my cell phone but I will be using my DSLR for the final image.

I have decided to go with the panorama of the walk I make through the neighborhood everyday. I am going to take many pictures of what I see when looking left, forward, and right as I walk to and from campus. Then I am going to combine the photos in a linear composition with day time on the far left and night time on the far right and have the perspective of the photos match left to right as well. I haven't decided if I was the photos to transition smoothly or remain as they are when I put everything together because I don't know what either is going to look like. So I will decided that once I have all my photos.

Here are my ideas for the next project.

One idea was to photograph my room in sort of a panoramic sequence thoughout the day so it would show my entire room, top to bottom, in different times of the day. It would start with the far left being early morning, when I first wake up and gradually transition to late night at the far right. I chose this because I love being in my room and I love the way it looks and feels at all times of the day. Here's a couple photos of part of my room:

Another idea was to photograph the coffee shop that I spend a lot of time at because the long hours I have spent sitting there has been a lot of fun and given me a lot of inspiration for my art. I would photograph at a very busy time in the evening so there is a lot of movement happening in my completed work. Here's a photo of Coffee Rush (I did not take this):


My last idea is to photograph my walk to and from ASU campus and my parked car because it's peaceful part of my day and the area I walk through is very beautiful and inspiring. I haven't got many compositional ideas for this one but I know I would want to photograph both morning time and night time because those are the times I am making this commute. I don't have any photos of it yet.

This is my final submission for the Bieber Raster Exercise. I chose to put him in the woods with a pack of wolves hunting and eating bunnies. I want to convey the idea that Justin Bieber is an animalistic person. In this picture, Justin is living in the woods with a pack of wolves. The idea is that even though Justin is some pretty boy popstar by day, at the end the day he goes home to the filthy and dangerous woods where he lives with his wolf-pack family hunting and eating bunnies for dinner. Not so pretty now, are you Justin? Does Selena know about your double life? Do Mom and Dad have her over for wild deer for dinner and then some butt sniffing for desert?

Putting this together was pretty simple for me. I gathered the images I needed; wolves in the woods, Justin Bieber's body, and a nice little dead bunny. I began with the woods as my background and used the selection tool to take Justin from his photo and into the woods photo. I used the eraser tool to make adjustments on his body relative to where I wanted him to stand. Then I adjusted his contrast, noise, and all-over hue to make his colors and textures match those of the woods photo better. Then I added some dirt stains to clothes and face as well as a nice stream of blood coming out his mouth, all with various brush textures and blending options. Then I added in the bunny the same way I did with Bieber. I gave him a drop shadow and pool of blood with the brush tool along with some bloody scratches. For the caption I used Helvetica and the emboss filter. Finally I adjusted the colors and levels of the entire image to complete it.

Enjoy!

This is another raster I did in class.