This was an interesting one to do. I was messing with photoshop last night and I came up with this. I took mainly the black out, and I think I took out some red and yellows too to make it look a little more pale, I actually liked how this turned out quite unexpected.

Research

Jan Groover

This is probably my favorite I saw of Jan Groover. I really like that the there is 3 different utensils, and that the  spoon is going the opposite way. There is definitely some line movement with the ketchup, and I like that there is different amounts of ketchup in each spot, it creates a thick or thinness to the ketchup. I also noticed that the lines are not complete, but it creates more of an abstraction feel instead of it all being connected. The mustard is only in dots, which is cool because they are spaced differently, 2 on the utensils, and 4 around the borders of the picture. The balance, is well, balanced. There is enough ketchup on each side and mustard on each side which makes them equal. One thing I just noticed while writing this is the reflection in the spoon. I see black and white checkered flooring, white cabinets, and Jan Groover who is taking the picture. It is difficult in my experience to try to take a reflective picture without yourself being in it, or the camera. What I have noticed is that Jan does a ton of utensil photography, so I feel Jan loves doing abstraction photography especially with utensils. I am not sure of the meaning, but ketchup and mustard is not something we usually think off when we think of utensils, we have actually food on the utensils. 

This picture has what looks like a butter knife and a lemon on a stainless steel table. What I like is that it's in Sepia, which I think it creates a warmer feel to the picture. What caught my distration from the knife and lemon is the 3 black dots next to the knife. I honestly feel like it shouldn't be there.  I like the angling of this picture, that we have the point of view from the knife side, which looks like knife is ready to cut the lemon. But yet, it's a butter knife, so I don't think the meaning of the picture was to cut the lemon. I noticed that the knife and lemon is cut off, I would've liked to see  the entire lemon and knife. I was imaging have the knife and lemon on the table, and imagine zooming out, and there in the middle, sort of closer to the upper right, the table, and the background is completely black, it would create such an amazing contrast. But back to the picture, I noticed that everything is equally focused. I noticed the scratches on the table, which would indicate lines, it sort of feels that it creates a texture to the table, that maybe the knife has been cutting on the table a lot. Last thing is I did notice a sort of shadow on the lemon, that it looks that there is lot coming in from the right side of the photo.

Stargazing

Also taken at PFA, I edited this today, and I was totally messing with the curves effect and ended up with this, it's not so much inverted per se. I added the star in the corner, which was also an added effect. :)

Binary Code

So I edited this pic today. I originally posed for this at PFA during class, and I instantly thought OOH, this would be great for editing. And sure enough, I messed with the colors and ended up with green. I then thought, okay, time for a first; add a layer. Since it was green I thought, Im a geeky nerd, why not add binary code background to it? So I did that. I then added a lot of contrast and messed with the levels to get it right.

Crayon Fun :D

I took this idea originally from Matt Lenko, who used Crayons in a picture he took. I messed around by randomly placing crayons on my desk, then finally came to the idea of placing them in the circle, with one standing up.


The original picture has crayons all the colors of the rainbow in order, but I decided to mess with the effects on GIMP, and I created a neon picture (#1) and added a cool illusion effect (#2)


I then decided what the heck, make the colors sort of inverted, and also mess with the curves to make it brighter and also the colors brighter. (#3) And of course, added the illusion to that as well. (#4)