Assignment 2 – Constructed Reality
The weekend before we began working on this project, I was in Arizona with my mom and decided to take my pictures there. I have always had a great appreciation for landscape photos as well as the beauty of mountain ranges. I took many pictures unsure of what I wanted to do with them, so when I was in class I decided to use multiple photos togethter to create a panoramic view. I chose photographs that weren’t next necessarily next to each other but lined them up so they could look like they connected. I also changed the sky in each of them, taking different sky views during the sunset from other photos. I lined up the landscapes so that the mountains connected but the edges did not. I also used tools on photoshop to make it look like the mountains and the grass beneath them really were all one view even though they weren’t and some were different colors because of the setting sun. I wanted to show different points of the sunset through the various views of sky as well as accurately and believably combine photos that were not meant to be connected. This way, you can tell that the sky above the mountains is obviously not meant to go together, yet the bottom half of the photos seem to. I liked the combination and construction of a half impossible and half plausible view of this landscape.
