Photomontage

            I ended up doing a photomontage of the sky. I took the pictures one night when I saw some clouds near my house, and the sun was poking through the clouds. I took quite a few photos, but the time from the first photo taken to the last photo taken wasn’t very long due to how rapidly the clouds moved away. I also incorporated a small part of a tree down at the bottom to help make the image more engaging.

            I decided to do clouds after I tried a number of different things for my focal point. I tried my shoes, a growing pepper, a rotting tomato, a leaf that was drying up, and shadows. But none of these turned out. Either the process was too fast and didn’t have much change, like the leaf, or the process was too slow, like the tomato and pepper. As for the shadows and shoes, they just didn’t turn out period. So when I was outside one night, I looked up and saw the clouds and decided to try a photomontage of them. While clouds may have been done before, each piece is different and unique. My photomontage of clouds has some clouds with a small amount of sun piercing through them that lights them up just a little bit. To my surprise I only got a few photos with a good amount of sunlight. After those few photos the sky wasn’t as bright, but there was enough light to take some more photos. I then finished with a blank sky.

            I wasn’t in the beginning, as into this project as what I would have liked to be, or what I am normally. However, once I was able to capture images that I knew would turn out the way I wanted them to, I was fully engaged. I went through many trials and errors with this project, but in the end I am happy with the result and enjoyed it very much.