Worcester Polytechnic Institute
I decided to remove the chess pieces from a tense looking chess match for my subtractive piece. I like it because when you take away the game, both of the players look a bit ridiculous. My favorite part is the player on the left staring intently at the potential next move of his opponent ready to write it down.
For my subtractive post, I took a picture of a family watching TV and took out the TV to show how empty a typical living room would look without a TV to tie everyone together. I did this because of how I used to spend time with my family watching TV and did this to show that our bonding in their would be nothing without all of us enjoying the entertainment of it together.
When we were first introduced to the concept of additive art I thought of a common joke relating to a series called Fate. That joke being that many of the female characters have the exact same face as one of the main characters called “Saber”. So I combined fifteen different characters with this “Saberface” into one image and as you can see there is absolutely a visible face. The only reason the face isn’t more clear is due to the difference in the source images and some lack of skill on my part.
These are the fifteen source images. It took some transforming and rotating to get the faces to overlap but it was made much simpler by the similarities in their faces.
For my additive/subtractive piece I took this picture of me looking out at the ocean and removed myself from the scenery. Without a person in the picture there is no scale to base the cliff’s size off of so it could be a lot smaller or a lot larger depending on how the viewer decides to see it.
For my subtractive project I chose to see the effect of removing cities from a picture would do. I removed the city from the original photo to see how it would change the picture and how people would view it. My opinion is that the image becomes more natural because of the loss of man made structures and addition of more nature. In my opinion the blending looks a bit weird on the left side of the photo
I created an average of 10 current NFL quarterbacks. What I found really interesting with my picture is that you can clearly see a person in it – one that doesn’t necessarily look like any of them. The shoulders show the common build of an NFL quarterback, obviously with some out liars, and the head shows that most of them have a similar face build and hairline.
These are the original images I used.
The original photos include front views of Mercedes Gull-wing with the doors open. I decided to show this car throughout history because it is one of my favorite cars. I have consistently enjoyed this car from 1954-2012. I decided to take the first 3 years the car was made and combine it with the most recent years. I used the approach of additive to combine all 6 photos. My focus in aligning these photos was with the prominent Mercedes logo on the front grill. I decided to focus on the logo because it is very recognizable and most people can identify the car by its logo.
https://www.netcarshow.com/mercedes-benz/1954-300_sl_gullwing/1280×960/wallpaper_17.htm
http://carfineart.com/classic-cars/
http://www.caricos.com/cars/m/mercedes-benz/2010_mercedes-benz_sls_amg/images/141.html
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/361976888769380550/
I believe that the ice caps melting – or global warming – has the potential to be catastrophic for a lot of people. I took this picture of the Earth that I found online and erased Antarctica, and some land that I believe will be submerged under the new water from the (now melted) ice-caps.
For my subtractive assignment, I decided to use a picture from the intro of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! I took a screenshot of this frame from the intro to edit.
Original
For my edited photo, I decided to remove the magic carpet and everyone atop it from the picture.
Edited
In the original context of the image, the creatures down below, called Piranha Plants, are chomping at everyone on the carpet above. However, after editing everyone out of the image, this no longer appears to be the case. In the edited picture, it now appears that the left Piranha Plant is lunging towards the right one, while the right one appears to have been hit or to be dodging the hit. The removal of this integral piece from the picture changes the scene’s context entirely. I decided to do this edit because I wanted to show the role that object placement has in different forms of media, in this case, television shows. Despite the Piranha Plants themselves not changing their position between images in the slightest, the way the human eye perceives what is happening is different because of their surroundings.
This is the famous picture of Bobby Orr scoring the Stanley Cup winning goal in 1970 for the Boston Bruins and is quintessential to Boston sports history. In a lot of photos taken of famous sports events, the focal point is the player who made ‘the big play.’ I find it interesting to look at the outside points of the picture as you can see a lot of different emotions in the opposing team, the crowd, etc. The biggest challenge in my subtraction was having to essentially guess at what the defenseman’s (in white) pants looked like on his back leg. I decided to use a darker shade of his foreground leg as this would generate a more realistic, 3D look.
