Molly Clark Digital Imaging Blog

  I straightened the bridge to look more clean, touched up some mistakes in the leaves, and added an iris with a blending mode on in the focal point of the piece. Overall, I made the image brighter, added a purple hue to the picture, brightened up the flower, doll, and balloons. I also made the hot air balloons bigger because I felt like they got lost in the background. I moved them more towards the center of the picture to balance the composition out.

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 It took me a while to come up with a concept that strayed away from what I consider cliché, like life and death, and I came up with a couple of ideas to start off with. My first composition displays the inevitable loss of childhood we all experience as we age. My concept is that our childhood memories eventually start to dissolve and we can't remember exactly everything as it was when we viewed the world through young eyes.  My second picture is considerably more lighthearted. The composition shows a bridge branching out into the sky that signifies infinite opportunities that life gives us. In the sky is an antique light fixture with plants and a mini sculpture of a woman inside it that I found in my great grandfather's house years ago. I thought it looked cool in the sky and I feel that it can represent new beginnings since that object has not been admired in so long yet I am admiring it now. I am still working on this one so I might tweak some things before I call it finishe