Week 3- Critique with Out Takes

Original

These the attempts I made. "Try 3" is the one I chose for critique. I wasn't sure what else I could do to my photo mosaic from last week. So I decided to try something a little more challenging, a person. I figure a landscape was a fairly neutral subject when it comes to photo mosaics, and rendering a person through a photo mosaic I thought would be harder to do and it was. It was a toss up between "Try 2 & 3". I used the same individual trash photos from last week. The out takes from that are at the bottom.

Try 1 Try 2

Try 3 Try 4

This is what I started to work on before I remembered I could use an application that would help me create a photo mosaic, like Chris Jordan's. So used the software AndreaMosaic. Plus it wasn't really emulating his work.

Postcard from Hell... err I mean from Florida

This was my first attempt with the photo mosaic software, and thought it was okay, so I modified the settings for the ones to follow, but ended (last week) picking the one I made on my second attempt.

Forgone Beauty 2, 2009

This one I had eliminated some photos and forgot to repopulate the list. Ooops! Who knows this could really be what it might look like if we as a society don't change our ways.

This was the last attempt from last week, which I had tried using less individual photos than before and this time remembered to repopulate the archive which the software references.

Forgone Beauty 3, 2009

Week 2

Artist Chris Jordan - "Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months."

Skull with Cigarette, 2007 [based on a painting by Van Gogh]


My photo mosaic: I am hoping you will be able to click on the photo and be able to zoom in to see the photos used in the mosaic. If have included a sample of the photos I took and used below. On Chris Jordan's website he also shows zoomed in sections of his work. I can only imagine the awesome technology he uses to create his final artwork.

Artist Lisa Whitman - "Depicts the tragedy that is taking place everyday, all over the world, which is destroying marine and mammal life."

Forgone Beauty 2, 2009


These photos below are a sample of the over 40 I took and used in my above final photographs.

Week 1

Simplicity

Fine Wine

Ode to Cezanne

500

Memories

Memories (b&w)

Family Tree