Karen Halverson's photographs are very interesting and helpful in making me express my concept of evidence and how life will be forever moving on in this world. They have a beautiful combination between the amazing lanscape of this world and the man-made contructions and materials, the colourful riben for example. Halverson's images are very captivating because of the coloured riben which has been tangled into branches and trees. I like these pictures because she made the background and most of the foreground quite bright but the coloured riben is still a strong deep colour especially in Picture 1.
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Picture 2
Picture 3
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For the shot of the blue tape/ribbon tangled around the branches I wanted to shape the ribbon as accurate as I could, once I thought it was as close as I could get it, I took only a few pictures, I already had the setting set up from the last shoot, so I didn't need to play around with the ISO, exposure or anything, on the focus of course. Some of the shots were too close to the tape so I decided not to pick them, then I was seeing if all the pictures had the tape in the right position within the picture, the ones that did I renamed, then I edited all the renamed pictures to look like the original, the biggest difference within the editing was lowering the saturation and increasing the brightness and highlights. Then I compared them with the original and looked at the lighting, foreground and background, whether the tape for away enough or close enough and lastly the shadows.
This photograph was slightly simpler to put up but was also harder to make the photograph look bright because the trees put everything in shadow. I experimented with the settings quite a lot to bring the high exposure look that the original shot has. I took half with some over exposure and took another half in a normal setting that that made it look how it did in real life. Firstly I looked at the pictures to see if the tape was wrapped correctly, then I checked that the tree that was wrapped in tape was slightly left of the photograph, then I focused on the angle of the camera to the tree, if it looked similar to the original and ticked all the other factors I renamed it. Then after editing them to look as similar as possible I looked at whether the focus was on the wrapped up tree or the trees in the background, if they were on the wrapped tree then I just choose the remainders on my personal choice, I didn't like close 4 because the trees were way too dark, then it was just between close 3 and close 5, this was very difficult. I liked both photographs and thought they both looked similar to the original, close 3 was brighter but the colours were nice in close 5, I finally decided on close 3 because close 5 was just slightly too dark and close 3 just look that tiny bit better in terms of similarity to the original, personally I prefer close 5 in terms of quality and artistic skills.
Lastly, the shot of the red ball stuck between a branch and tree. I was very lucky in that I managed to find a area which looked similar to the original, there was a tree fallen by a standing tree which looked like the original. Then I had to set up the red ball of paper/plastic with the stick put under the fallen tree to make it look like the stick was a branch coming from the fallen tree. Again I played with the settings to make the shot look just like the original, at first I just put the setting to a suitable level, but realised that it needed to be slightly brighter. I also looked at the angle and what was in focus, the foreground or background. Then after renaming the photographs that looked similar I thought about if the tree was slanted and whether it looked like the original as a whole, there was only one which stood out for me, close 2.