Creative Composite:

For this project I wanted to create an image that made you take a second look.  

My Objectives was to take two completely unusual or different objects or ideas and create them into one image.  My goal is to make people question how it was made.  

I want to execute a composite using photography.  I particularly like to photograph macro, landscapes and people; and I want to use that photography style to create my composite image.  I would like to use all original images, but that depends on the image I create.  

Thumbnails:

I started out sketching these 50 thumbnails. I didn't exactly know what direction I wanted to go in.  I had a couple different ideas and tried to do different variations of them. Overall each idea was very different from the last.  

Layout Comps:

I decided to go with my idea of taking a picture of someones eye and another picture of steel wool and put the steel wool within the eye.  There were many different ways I was trying to set it up whether the steel wool would be throughout the whole eye, just the iris, or just within the pupil. Another idea I was toying with was how would the steel wool be shot in a circle or a figure eight. 

Value Coms:

I decided that I wanted to put the steel wool within the iris of the eye.  From there i was able to add different values to the image to see what could work best.  

Final Image:

Here is the eye that I chose to use for the composite.  

The Steel Wool picture I chose. 

And finally here is the composite I created out of the two images.  

Deliverable:

After going back and looking at my image and with feedback from my professor I realized that I liked my image however there is not lots of contrast and you really can't tell the difference it just looks like an eye.  I went back and redid my image.  

I realized I didn't like the original image of the eye. I wanted it to be more centered on the iris and no distractions with the eyelid and lashes. 

I kept the same image of the steel wool, because I like how it has lots of sparks flying.  

This is the final image I created.  I like how this picture is more dramatic and you can definitely see that there is something different and unique about the eye.  Whereas the last image I created there was only a subtle difference.  Another thing about this image that interests me is that the center of the eye the colors are very warm, but as the sparks fly out towards the outer part of the iris the colors become very cool.  

I really enjoyed seeing this project come to life.  I had a good idea in my head of what I wanted this image to be when I first started sketching, but making it into the deliverable image makes the work well worth it.