Triptych Summative

1. The first panel represents skateboarding. At first, it was going to focus on sports, but I wanted to narrow that category down because there were too many pictures to use, so I used skateboarding as the category. I am really interested in skateboarding news and I skateboard as a hobby, so I saw that is would be good to use as the narrower category. I was also either going to use hockey or snowboarding. The second panel represents the music aspect of my life. It shows that I play music because of the guitars and it shows I enjoy listening to it because of the CD's. Also the belt buckle shows I like music. Other photos that should be included would be clarinet photos. The last panel is of my friends and me. Friends are a big part of my life, so I devoted a panel to them. It includes some city friends and some camp friends.

2. I used the elements in many ways, but the easiest ones to see are mostly in the skateboarding and music section. Color is used in the skateboarding section by making a lot of the tones gray and dark blue, so that it works together and it is monotoned like concrete, which is what you skateboard on. Also for line, abstract lines of skateboards all sort of point to the middle of the panel which leads your eyes to the main photo. Color and texture were both used when the color of concrete and the texture of concrete makes you think that it's rough.

3. I feel that the areas of strength were all within the skateboarding panel. That panel was the second panel I did, so I had a bit of experience from the first one, and I used very unnatural shapes in a nice way that is pleasing to the eye. Also another area of strength was the Photo in Photo in the friends panel because it turned out really well because it gives you the feeling that it is an actual polaroid picture that has been casually tossed onto the triptych.

4. I think the areas that could need some more work would be my music photo, the lines between the panels and the edges around selections. The music panel is a bit rough due to the fact that it was my first panel that I did so it was more experimental, but now that I have the techniques, I could refine it. The transition zones between the panels are a bit rough, so the gradients between them could be reworked. Lastly, the selection edges were rough because I used the polygonal lasso tool and then used the eraser to clean up the edges. Next time I would use a smaller eraser to avoid the jagged edges I made accidentally.