My message I was trying to get across for this project was
that military AI in the future could get dangerous for civilians and my cause
terror in the future. I was inspired to make this because I saw a series of
videos on YouTube that were involving defense robots made by the military that
were controlled by AI, most of these robots were modeled after dogs or even
humanoids. To replace robots in my image I used manikins because they were the
closest thing that looked like a robot that I could shoot, I also shot a field
for the ‘’robots’’ to stand on, I added in two other photos that were not mine
because they were simply out of reach like a gun or a high quality photo of the
city.
When I came up with the first idea for this image and
sketching it was just drawing a field with robots with guns, it slowly evolved
to drawing manikins because I quickly realized what I had to shoot with, then I
started drawing the field near the parking lot by my school. When I first fully
realized what I would be doing I quickly went to go shoot the images I needed
like the field and my manikins. After I shot them I edited then put them
together in Photoshop. The next thing I did was getting the guns I needed from
the Internet and put in into my picture but I realized the picture looked a
little plan even with the gun in it so I put a couple of buildings in the
background to make it less bare. I chose to put a couple of building in the
background because if there are a robot walking around you would assume it is
the future and there would be buildings everywhere so I put them in. After
editing all the photos I changed the way they looked with levels, I blended
them all with masks and the command J tool and it created my final product.
I learned allot while making this project and preparing for
it one the biggest lessons I learned was that the mask tool is allot more handy
then I thought before I made this image I knew how to use the tool before but I
never put it into anything and now I realize how good it is. Another big thing
I learned was how to use the command J tool properly I never used to use it
because of I how difficult I thought it was to use all I knew about it was that
it blended you pictures better, now that I know how to use it properly it has
help me allot with my final image. At the end of the day I will admit that I am
not as satisfied with my final product as I thought I was going to be, when I
finished the image it looked allot different then I had in my head my final
image felt empty compared to what I was thinking I feel like I should of added
more to the photo but I had no idea for what else I should add. At the end of
the day though had allot of fun with this exercise and I am exited for more
project in the future.
