I am not happy with my results for the above poster at all. I feel that I executed my vision for it very badly. I wanted much, much more dramatic lighting behind the 3D lettering, something that would resemble the sun coming up behind stone-henge and give sort of a dramatic visual fanfare. The traingle feature in the centre was supposed to be like a "wow" factor that broke up the lettering and made the poster eye catching and memorable, which it does anything but.
Very unimpressed with myself indeed there.
This was a design I came up with using my final piece from the first task. I find it to be well balanced and aesthetically pleasing, in a harmless, inoffensive, playing it safe kind of way, but think it lacks any imagination.
Final Piece
Although completely contrary to my initial plans I settled on the layout below. The main image was a photo taken when I was testing arrangements for the lettering and, although I took very little care with the lighting, shutter speed or aperture settings, I think it has turned out rather well. It wasn't something I had thought of, but I quite like having my battered desk and some stationary in shot as a visual cue for an office or workshop setting - a reference to paper use at its grass roots.
From a technical perspective I did relatively little to it in Photoshop. I was happy with the colours so just left them as they were in the original photo and used the Burn tool to soften the edges so that they faded to black more gradually.
The biggest problem was that the photo had been taken in the early stages before i realised my spelling error and altered the H to and F. I used the Clone Stamp tool to erase the H using the texture of the desk, then formed an F by "cutting" up parts of the other letters using the Lassoo tool. I had to use the Clone Stamp tool again to match the lighting and produce what I think is a pretty seamless result.
Spot the difference!
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