I made this for my final project in keeping with my environmental theme that I have had all semester. With all that happened and is happening at Fukushima I started thinking about the huge nuclear threat that we have created. I wanted to portray a sense that something needs to change.
I started with a NASA star picture. I thought the stars were a little too distracting, so I layered them over a black background and lowered the opacity. Then I found a really cool picture of two hands holding the world. I felt the hands were too saturated and the world not enough. I used an adjustment to raise the saturation of the whole layer until I like the look of the world. Then I used a second adjustment with masking to de-saturate just the hands. I used a layer mask to remove the black and fade the hands. Then I found the picture of the nuclear explosion, and overlaid a nuclear symbol that I had from the book cover design. I set the blending mode to darker color, and the fill to 69 to get that subtle overlay. Then I took the picture of the cooling tower and adjusted the hue to give the tower a greenish feel. I removed the sky from the back ground, them I replaced it with a blue sky with puffy clouds. I wanted it to feel as if the tower was emanating something toxic. I took the image of the fire and laid it over the clouds, and with a combination of a hue adjustment and divide blending mode, got the sky to look as if the tower is pumping out something toxic.
Hope you all like it.
Works Cited
Earth. Photograph. Innovations in Civic Participation. Web. 29 Apr. 2011.
Fire. Photograph. Station 26 Fleet. Web. 29 Apr. 2011.
Nuclear Cooling Towers. Photograph. Utilities ME. Web. 28 Apr. 2011.
Nuclear Explosion. Photograph. The Real News Now World Leaders and the Real News Now. Web. 29 Apr. 2011.
Stars-Nasa. Photograph. NASA. Avatian Queen. NASA. Web. 29 Apr. 2011.
I like your choice for your sequential imagery project. It is something that has been on the mind of many people lately. We all need to think about both the short and long term consequences of using nuclear power and how it affects our planet. Until something bad happens, like Japan, we don't think about the possibility of anything going wrong. I think it was smart to desaturate the hands holding the Earth. It allows the viewer to see that the Earth is the most important. The use of fire and an explosion on top of the radiation symbol show what can happen in contrast to the tower that does not seem harmful. It delivers a powerful message.
ReplyDeleteI like it but I do not understand why you made the cooling tower green.
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