C18 Digital Imaging & Computer Art

Synthetic: Domino Pattern

Animal: Bird Pattern

For a quick additive piece, I ended up doing one about stages.

The original idea for the image was a sort of neat image of ghostly apparitions walking the same stage as others have before them and adding their own effect to the stage as they do so. The main, non-ghostly performers do their thing regardless of what mark their forbearers left, presenting themselves as a new legacy that will eventually fade into the wooden floorboards with their predecessors.

It was mostly composed of other stags, layered together based on the effect stood out the most. The main body had the most interesting stage and performer composition, while the smaller bodies had interesting lighting or movement for the few performers that showed up there.

For reference, the original picture (from a production of Hamilton):

Hello,

My name is Connor Reardon, I am a senior studying Management Engineering with a concentration in Civil. I am from Salem, Massachusetts. I enjoy all types of music, as well as video as forms of art. I have also enjoyed photo editing as an art form. One of the last pieces of art that I did was designing a friends tattoo he got for his daughter.

 

 

One of my favorite places is New York City. I have always enjoyed travelling there, and have gone much more often in the recent years since my brother began his job there. Therefore, I wanted to create an icon to represent NYC, so I attempted to recreate the empire state building.

For my subtractive piece I decided to use a famous photo from one of my favorite movies, “Pulp Fiction.” I decided to remove the cigarette from the actress, due to the negative effects of that smoking cigarettes can have on your body. These effects weren’t truly known or publicized at the time of the movie. By removing the cigarette, young people who see this image won’t be influenced into smoking.

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For my project I wanted to create a piece that would evoke questions such as “how?” and “why?” from the viewer. To accomplish this I found a photo that was already quite unbelievable (bottom), and then I made it even more unbelievable by removing the only plausible explanation as to what caused the phenomena of the airborne man seen. Without context, it is not clear that the man is just enjoying a day at the beach with some friends. Perhaps instead he is falling into the water due to a rather unfortunate accident. Or perhaps his ankles have the ability to fly, and are dragging along the rest of his body with them…

The majority of the work on this project was removing tiny white specks of water droplets with spot healer. The other was adding some variance to the water which replaced the Bro-Launching Dude Squad™, which proved a much more tedious and difficult task than I had anticipated.

With the playoffs in full swing, I focused on the game deciding play of Super Bowl XLIX, when Malcom Butler intercepted the ball in the Seahawks’ end zone.  If Butler hadn’t been there, Lockette may have caught the ball and the Seahawks could’ve won the Super Bowl instead of the Patriots.

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For my Subtractive images I did a series specific to WWII. I wanted to make a statement on censorship, as this idea has gained support recently. I’ve seen online many people asking why we don’t just censor ideas and propaganda that differs from our common identity as a nation. “If we don’t see the evil, we don’t experience the evil.” I strongly disagree. When we look back in our past and try to forget, not only do we forget those who suffered – we dishonor heroes who fought against evil. In addition,

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -George Santayana

For my project I chose to alter an image of my brother taken by Jake Cunningham at one of his shows. I really love this photo, the setting is pretty awesome and the photographer managed to catch an image that encapsulated my brothers relaxed and focused style. Initially I was unsure what to do to the photo, I played around with removing him from the photo and leaving just his sticks and the kit, but the staging didn’t allow for the impact I was hoping for, and the background transition behind him would’ve require a significant amount of time to get just right. Instead, I chose to remove the sticks and the drum kit from the photo, leaving my brother, caught in the moment, without any explanation for his pose. I was really satisfied with how this turned out both technically and with regards to commentary. In the public eye, drummers are often overlooked, but their work is the backbone of the music. The removal of the drums leaves just the musician, unable to be ignored.

For my subtractive project, I chose to alter a picture of a bicycle. My objective was to make it look like he was floating in the air like a witch. To do this, I took out the wheels on the bike. Some issues I had editing this picture was that originally, it was in color. However, I had no way of adding in the words on the banner behind the back wheel because I didn’t have any reference. To solve this, I used the red layer which got rid of the red banner and made it blend with the white text.