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Transport: A Junior Conceptual Transport Project by Maria Haggart (2017)

The object I chose to portray in my photo was the wheel of a toy chariot. It’s not something that we see everyday, and allowed for some interesting angles. The colors worked nicely together on the chariot itself, and it the wheel of the chariot clearly belonged to a children’s toy. I placed the toy on a wreath that was hanging by my door, made of twigs and shells., where the backdrop would be a nice shade of red because of the bricks behind the wreath. The area was shady, and there wasn’t a light that was on nearby, which created darker photo, contrasting the bright playfulness that the toy implies and the light a toy is typically framed in. I wanted to go against how a toy was normally photographed, so I didn’t adjust to make up for the light as much as I normally would. The lighting also allowed for the light blue of the wheel to compliment the brown of the branches that made up the wreath, and creating the calming color scheme that appears with the brown, white and light blue. The angle of the photo made it so you couldn’t see the full carriage of the chariot, so the focus was on the wheel of the chariot and the bright pink of the plastic seats wouldn’t disrupt the color scheme. It also allowed for some leading lines to lead to the wheel, created by the branches.

The Photoshop process was fairly simple for this photo. The shot was already zoomed in on the wheel and the branches, so I didn’t have to crop the photo in order for it to be focused on the wheel. I added a black vignette to the photo to soften the corners of the photo as we had learned to do with every photo we were going to turn in. I used the spot healing brush to fix a few brown dots found on the wheel’s spokes and on the chariot’s carriage. I also fixed a few knobs on the branches that seemed out of place in the background, or were blurry when the rest of the branch wasn’t. Other than the simple fixes, I didn’t apply any filters or change the saturation of the photo. These changes ultimately helped the photo by taking away any mishaps on the wheel and the branches, while keeping the photo relatively unedited so it didn’t look unnatural. This process taught me how to accurately correct a spot on an object, and reinforced the idea that sometimes less is more when it comes to Photoshop.
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