The formal elements – paper

With this task that we were set for taking pictures of pieces of paper, I have 3 different pictures here in which I have selected out of 60 pictures, on the ones that I thought appealed to me the most.

Once I selected the three pictures, I decided to photoshop them in order to change the pictures and make certain aspects of the pictures stand out.

For the first picture I messed around with the exposure in order to make the shadows stand out from the picture having the tones of black and white bounce off each other as the differences in the tones are drastic compared to one another. With this edit I gained more interest into the picture as it doesn’t even seem like a piece of paper anymore but more like a landscape of some sort of rocky terrain.
As for the second picture I brought the exposure down in the achievement of having the picture become black and white. This caused the effect of the shadows in the picture to be heightened, making them a lot more visible compared to the original photo.
Finally, as for the last picture I edited it from the original and put the gamma correction up which brought out the few colours of the picture. This brings in some depth into the picture as you can see which parts of the paper have more depth than other parts moreover, the shadows in this picture also stand pout as you can see which shadows stand out more than the others like the more scrunched section in the centre of the paper. This picture looks more appealing than the original after editing it because it almost makes the picture seem like it was drawn giving it a cartoon appearance.

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