Transport Project: A Junior Conceptual Transport Project by Kearstyn Harkins (2017)

For this project, we needed to find a mode of transportation that did not have a motor and take several pictures of that vehicle, then edit our best picture in Photoshop. While setting up the bike I used as my mode of transportation, I was trying to think of a unique way to show off the wheels of the bike. I thought that the front wheel would provide a nice border around the top right-hand side of the picture as I focused more on the middle of the bike and the back tire. I leaned the bike on its kick-stand instead of on one of the trees around me because I felt that the picture looked more nonchalant and not as staged. I chose to make the the background mostly out of the stone pathway beneath the bike because I like the aesthetic of the stones and the leaves that are scattered haphazardly on the ground, I think it adds some sincerity to the photo that I really like.

We learned a lot of new things about how to properly use Photoshop. We learned about how to create masks and how to adjust the hue, saturation, and grain in our picture after we had gotten back from the field. In Photoshop, I edited the picture quite a bit. First, I adjusted the lighting, since the bike was in the shade in this picture and I felt that it was a bit underexposed. After that, I actually moved into Photoshop and used the Healing Brush to get rid of part of the blue string on the bike, as well as a few small bits of plastic that were under and around the bike. I also cropped the picture so that the pedal was cut out of the frame, I cropped the picture, because the pedal was bright orange and very distracting and out of place when compared to the rest of the picture which was mostly earthy colors with exception to the bike frame itself.