My project in Digital Collage in Photoshop: Composition and Visual Effects course

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• nick_pedersen

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  30.07.2021 at 01:02

  

  Hi Jarrod, excellent work! This is really a prime example of what you can accomplish by taking the time to create a concept, sketching and planning everything out, and getting the best material to make it happen. I am very impressed with your images individually, and even more so that you are creating this as a series. I think the concept is incredibly powerful, reflecting on nature and the role of humanity in the modern world. My favorite of these two images is "Monkey World", I think this is a very contemplative piece and I really connect with it. I love the composition and the color palette that you used for this, and it was very clever to use the image of the glowing orb of the Earth. My only recommendation would be to maybe bring down the saturation just a little bit, and also soften the cutout at the top of the chimpanzee's head to make it perfectly seamless. The "Rhino Baby" image is excellent too, and speaks about the future and wanting to live in harmony with nature. I really like the glowing horn with the light and particles coming down and drawing your eye to the baby. You have definitely created a very distinctive style and it works really well to illustrate your concepts. The only thing I might rethink is the image of the hunter, it is pretty intense but to me it might be more powerful leaving him out. Sometimes you have to think if you are hitting the viewer too much with the concept you want to convey, and I think the interaction with the baby is really very interesting on its own. So, overall some of the best work I've seen in this course and I hope you keep creating more images following this theme because it would be amazing as an exhibition or in a publication. Congratulations on a great project, keep going and be ambitious with your work because I think you really have something here. Cheers!

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• jarrod_morkel

  30.07.2021 at 14:20

  

  @nick_pedersen
  This feedback is monumental and will go along way in deepening my confidence
  I'll certainly make those adjustments to "Monkey World"
  The Hunter in "Rhino Baby" was such an internal struggle for me, between our current behaviour and the possibility of a better future
  The plan is to certainly continue to develop additional pieces for the series

  Thank you once again for the time, effort and energy you've poured into this course, the feedback you've given every student is truly nuggets of gold, all of which, will deepen the our insight and further hone our skillset

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