Period 5 -- Critical Analysis #10

12/1/2017

©Lissy Elle Laricchia

Today you will be writing about this photograph made by artist Lissy Laricchia.

Your analysis must be 5 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember to post your analysis as a comment to the blog post that corresponds to your class. If you post your analysis to the wrong class's post, it will not be graded.

If you do not complete your analysis in class, you must finish it for homework before your next class on MONDAY, 12/4/17.

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Ryan Kyle

12/1/2017 11:22:37 am

The image is of a girl and her dog playing in the clouds. The way that this composite is done makes the image look like the cloud is snow. The image uses mostly white and green. The lighting is actually kind of dark which is surprising, since they are above the clouds. The objects are the clouds, dog, and girl. The girl is playing with the snow like it is snow.

The composition to me is not that pleasing to look at because the two subjects are in the top left corner, which makes them not really the focus of the image. The rule of thirds is not being used in this image which kind of makes it look bad to me. The point of view is 1st person because the girl playing in the clouds is the photographer. There is a deep depth of field being used in this image. The focal point is mostly the dog and girl but everything else is in focus too.

I wouldn’t say that there are any line in this image that direct your eye toward the subject. The image is asymmetrical. The subject does not fill the frame because you can see the clouds and ground below. The edge of the image just contains clouds and ground. The positive space is the girl and dog and the negative space is everything else.

There aren’t any real themes to me in this image. There is probably a story being told, although I can’t think of what it would be. The artist made this image probably as a set of composited images. If the image does challenge beliefs then it is kind of hard to tell. I don’t really think that the image is noteworthy or anything like that.

I do not particularly like this image. I don’t like it because the subject is in the top corner instead of in the middle and the idea for this image seems kind of bland to me. The photograph to me is unsuccessful. The compositing looks kind of strange to me. Overall this image is slightly boring and unentertaining to look at.

Kate Madison

12/1/2017 11:30:20 am

This image is of Lissy Elle and probably her dog standing on clouds above a city. This image is using white and neutral colors. The lighting is mostly bright where the clouds are and dark where the clouds aren’t. Some things in the object could be the dog, Lissy, buildings beneath them, and clouds. In this image Lissy Elle used compositing to put her dog and herself looks like they were standing on clouds above the city.

This image is pleasing to look at because at first glance it looks like they’re standing in snow next to a semi-frozen river but then when you look closer it looks like clouds above a city. The rule of thirds is being used because Lissy and her dog and in the first section of the frame if you split it in thirds. This image is using the third point of view. This is also using a deep depth of field because all parts of the image are mostly focused. The focal point for me is the dog.

The lines are the gaps in between the clouds that direct your eye to Lissy and her dog. This image is not balanced. Lissy probably made this image to trick our minds and make us think about how she did it and what is going on in it. The subject does not fill the frame and there is a lot of extra space. The frame cuts out the rest of the city and possibly oceans and clouds. The negative space is the city below and the positive space is the clouds, dog, Lissy.

The ideas in this image may have been to make wonder and disbelief. I do not think there is a story being told in this image. Lissy may have created this image to make us wonder how she did it. This image reminds me of a movie where a girl was standing in the snow and playing with her dog next to a river. This image looks peaceful to me.

I think that Lissy used compositing to get this image. She may of taken a pictures of her in the snow, just the snow, the dog, and the city and put them all together in Photoshop. I feel like she probably used a lot of other masks and curves to edit this image. This image probably took help from other and even then I’m sure it took a long time to get the image that she wanted. I think this is a good photo because it looks calming.

Pato Wray link

12/1/2017 11:35:33 am

This photo is of a man and his dog which looks like they are on top of the clouds. There is a beautiful scenery in the background including the city below. There are bright lights in the photo and must have been very hard to shoot and/or photoshop the image. There is a city in the background that catches your attention when looked at by first glance. Lissy Elle Laricchia was the photographer behind this and I give her an A+ on this photo. This must have been very hard to make knowing you were in a plane going 300mph.

When you look at is as a none-experienced photographs, you cannot tell how the photo was shot. You cannot be standing on clouds, it's impossible. But when you go into the details, this image was composited through photoshop very nicely. The image didn't follow the rules of thirds but still a very good image. In order to have this photo be like this, she would have needed to have her and her dog in a snowy environment, then go on a plane and shoot the background image, and lastly use photoshop to make this image. This image is in shallow depth of field with the dog and her but deep depth of field with the sky and city below. The image is symmetrical and does fit in a frame or doesn't have any extra space. There isn't much negative space being shown and everything is mostly the positive space. The frame does cut off a little bit of the city but no too much of it.

The theme for this image might also be dream. As we are working on this theme now, she kind of uses this image as an example to best everyone in their photoshop experience and photo-shooting experience. The story behind this might be something as if you are "walking on air" or something on that topic. The intention was probably to reach for the star and follow your dreams and make them a reality. I think there might be a couple of movies that relate to this, but I don't watch very many movies so no I don't know any movies about this. It might challenge the belief of gravitation if it wasn't photoshopped, but it was so it wouldn't challenge much. The image is very beautiful because I have seen out of a plane and saw this and it looks magnificent. But capturing it on film is even better.

It doesn't challenge anything that I hate but it does open my eyes saying anything is possible and you have to keep trying in order to experience your life-long goal. The image is very successful and I can "take off my hat in gratitude" for this one. I don't know the background of Lissy and what she's been through. She will have had a good career with pictures like these.The photo was very unique in a way of knowing what she has been through for this photo and many more to come.

She will have made so much money with photos and artistic work when she becomes older and goes through more things. Just knowing that I cannot make a good photo of my dog because it'll always be doing something i don't want it to be doing, it makes me happy for her and mad at myself. She should have been given an A+ on every image that looks similar and identical to these. Her photoshopping abilities are very good and I encourage her to do more images. Knowing I cannot even do a "simple" edit for photoshop makes me wonder if the world is getting smarter or technology is enhancing more. Either way, the world is getting better.

Maria Tirado

12/1/2017 11:39:03 am

This is an image shot and composed by the artist Lissy ELle Laricchia. Ms. Laricchia probably took a picture of what look like to be the earth. She also may have shot a couple pictures of some clouds and the last thing she shot was a photograph of a girl and her dog. This image is a composite, because it is not realistic that a dog and a girl can walk on clouds above the earth. She composed this image by adding lots of layers of all of the different images she shot and combining them together.

This photograph is of a young woman wearing a hat and a blue coat with a big, brown dog. You could say the main subjects of this picture are the girl and dog located on the left upper corner of this image. This image is using earthy tones and colors, since it is a picture of nature. She is using very dull colors to contrast with the white clouds. These images were probably shot during the day, because each part of this photograph has a very good quality of light.
This composite is very pleasing to look at, because it is very well composed, and looks very real. Even though the situation isn’t realistic, the image looks like one single photograph. It all blends in together. This image is using the rule of thirds, because the subjects are on the left side it the upper box. I can assume that most of these pictures were taken from a very high angle, except for the clouds. The overall depth of field of this image is shallow, because I can see the focus is on the layered clouds and the girl with her dog. This image is in fact asymmetrical and the subject does not fill the whole picture.

The theme or idea that I get from looking at this image is a dream like theme. The girl is crouched on the clouds as if she has lost something, and the dog also sniffing around makes me believe he is helping her. This image reminds me a little bit of my childhood, because it looks like something from an adventure book, or maybe even from a movie like that one film named Spy Kids. I am a big dreamer, in the daylight and nighttime, and this reminds me of one of my crazy dreams. It could also have a powerful concept or message like keep your head in the clouds, or think outside of the box.

I really like this image, but I wouldn’t say it is one of my favorites. I enjoy the professionally done composite and I like the concept of having an earthly theme. I enjoy looking and the clouds, because they are very sharp and they stand out amidst everything else. This photograph is definitely successful along with other of her composite images. It gives me a dreamy vibe and makes my mind wonder, which I enjoy once in a while.

Mikaela Mumme

12/1/2017 11:39:18 am

This image is very unrealistic, the image is of a girl and her dog in clouds. The girl is playing with her dog and below them is a city. This photo has cool colors using lots blues and greens. It almost looks like a winter scene with the colors and how the girl is dressed with her hat and jacket. The lighting is good and is brighter around the clouds and darker on the ground level.

This image is pleasing to look at with all its different components making it interesting. This image is taken from a bird's eye point of view allowing the viewer to see from above looking down. I am not sure if the photographer intentionally took this image with the rule of thirds in mind but this photo dos uses the rule of thirds. This image has a deep depth of field which allows everything in all parts of the image to be clear. This image doesn't have any negative space I think this photo focuses on all components of the photo highlighting how all parts are important.

This image was made using compositing. I think this image took probably three or more photos, one of the clouds, one of the girl and her dog, and one of the city. I think the photographer might have also used masking to brighten some parts of the image to make the exposure look more even throughout, so the composite flows well and does not look choppy. I think this image would have been very hard to composite, because of all the different settings and how they were all brought together. I think the photographer would have had to pay a lot of attention to light and the exposure settings to make this image flow as well as it does.
This image is narrative and fits in with the topic of dream. The unrealistic components of this image allow you to interpret this image in many ways. I think the artist wants people to be uplifted by her photo. This image is happy and reminds you of when you of a good dream you had. This image is happy because how she's floating on clouds and above the city, it is like a story of being held high in your achievements. This image gives off a sense of relief.

I like this image and think it is successful. I think this image is successful because it tells a story That makes you feel an emotion. This image is also very good in quality. The quality of this image for being a composite i think is very good because of all the setting changes. Personally this is one of my favorite images and i really enjoy it.

Jessica Mims

12/1/2017 11:39:28 am

This is a self-portrait by Lissy Laricchia. The subject is herself and her dog, they are playing in the clouds. Below the clouds, we can see the city that is very green and covered in buildings. The lighting in the image is natural. Most of the colors are neutral.

This image has a deep depth of field. We can see the small details of the city below. The picture has a third person point of view. The rule of thirds is being used in the photo because the subject is not centered, but it is on the left side of the photo. The image is not symmetrical because the clouds are in one part and the city is shown in the other part of the photo.

I think one of the themes of this image could be imagination. It is obviously impossible for something like this photo to actually happen, but the way that the image was created makes it seem like it could actually happen. This image could also fit our project theme, dream. Maybe Laricchia once had a dream about herself playing in the clouds. This dream could have given her the inspiration to create this image.

This is a composite, one of the images was taken of the clouds and city from a plane. The other image is of her playing with her dog in the snow. She put the two images together so that it looks like she is playing in the clouds with her dog. This would have been hard to create, one reason being the different lighting situations. This is a very creative image to make and she did it really well.

I like this image. I think it is successful, not only because it is sharp and has a good exposure, but also because it is creative. I have never seen a photo like this before. I think it can bring back a lot of memories from childhood for people when they see it. Because it has the ability to do this, more people are attracted to it and it could potentially become more successful because of it.

Larissa Esparza

12/1/2017 11:39:49 am

This image of a woman and her dog on clouds. The woman and her dog are floating in air, to make this image the photographer used composite. The way that composite works is you take multiple pictures of the two or more things you want in the picture and put them together. The photographer took a picture of her a her dog and of the clouds. After you take the multiple pictures you want to put together you use masking to hide the background of one of the images to appear as if they really are on the clouds.

This image of the photographer and her dog on the clouds is using a deep depth of field and the rule of thirds. The image is using a palette of cool colors that gives off a cool feeling. The white clouds look like snow and the ground looks like the grass that would be under the light palette of snow. The dark colors of the women's clothing and dog make them stand out on the white clouds so you can see that the woman looks like she's talking to the dog. The clouds also have a hint of blue.

The lighting in this image is probably two different lighting setting because its two images put together from two different settings. One lighting could be bright sunlight from the ground and the other be natural lighting from a plane. In the image the woman seems to be calling her dog to come to her while on the ground. This image is pleasing to look at but it almost scares me to look at it because it looks like they are going to fall off the cloud. For some reason the images brings me a fear of heights.

This image is taken in 3rd person point of view. The lines in this image are both on the clouds and on the ground. The lines on the cloud makes it look like the dog is drifting away from the owner on a separate cloud. The lines on the ground give the image more detail of the background. There is extra room in the image for extra clouds and background. The edge of the image is the background, the clouds and ground, it doesn’t cut off anything important like the subject.

I think the idea or metaphor of this image is that they have in their head in the clouds. The owner and dog are having so much together that they aren’t paying attention to anything going around them. The artist made this image to show how much she loves her dog and how much time they spend together. This image does not question any political beliefs. Someone who doesn’t know how to make a composite image could ask how to take an image like this one using composite. I do like this image.

Zach Burgos

12/1/2017 11:40:29 am

The image is of the land seen from above the clouds and there are Lissy and her dog on the clouds. The colors the image are using is a very dark green, white, brown, and a navy blue. The lighting is a bright sunlight. Lissy, her dog, the clouds, and the ground are in the image. Lissy is playing in the clouds with her dog.

This image is a composite with Lissy playing in the snow with her dog and an image on a plane looking down at the clouds. Lissy, most likely, took a photo or more of the clouds in a plane. She probably took many photos because it had to have the perfect amount of clouds. She then took photos of her and her dog playing in the snow, but the camera had to angled so it looks down on her. She then put them together in Photoshop.

I think the image is pleasing to look at because it was put together so well. I don’t think the rule of thirds is used in this photo. The photographer took this both in 3rd person and in 1st person because of the 2 pictures. The image used a large depth of field, but I'm not too sure since this made with 2 photos. The focal point is Lissy and her dog and it is framed by their dark colors on the white snow/cloud.

The lines are the edge of the cloud and they lead to Lissy. The image is asymmetrical because both sides are different. The subject does not fill the screen and it leaves a lot of extra space in the image. The rest of the image that was cut off is the rest of the ground and clouds. The negative space is Lissy and her dog while the rest of the clouds and the ground are the positive space.

Lissy made this image to show what anyone can do with compositing. The image reminds me of Jack and the Beanstalk with the Giant that lives in the clouds. The image does not challenge any beliefs. I think the image is interesting because it was a composite of the clouds and Lissy playing in the snow. I think the image is also Noteworthy because it shows what can be done with compositing.

Marissa Elizondo

12/1/2017 11:40:56 am

This image is a picture of a girl and a dog. The girl is actually the photographer, so this image is a self portrait.They are on what seems to snow, but at the same time it looks like they are on a cloud. The image was taken outside. Under the clouds/snow you can see land. You can see roads and figures that seem to look like houses. You can see a town under the clouds and it looks like the girl is looking down on the town.

This picture is a self portrait and it was made by compositing. One of the pictures that made up this image would be the girl and her dog on snow. She must live or have traveled to a place where there is snow and put the camera on a tripod and use a remote or timer. For the second picture that makes up this image would be a picture of the town. Im guessing she went on a plane or helicopter because the picture of the town is from above. I also think she might have used a third image of clouds to make the snow look more like clouds. Then, to get the image to look as if the girl and her dog are on clouds above the town, she must have combined the images in photoshop to get her composite.

The subject of the image is the girl and her dog. The subjects are not in the center of the image. They do not take up the whole frame, in fact they only take up a small part of the frame on the upper left corner. This image was taken in the photographer’s point of view. The positive space you be the two subjects and the negative space would be everything else. There aren’t many leading lines that draw you to the subject, but the bright white from the clouds/snow do.

This image is very beautiful and interesting to look at. This image is very dream-like. This picture is sort of showing a unrealistic version of reality. The girl and the dog are real, the town looks like a real town, and the clouds are real, but the way they are all combined together makes the image made up of real things look unrealistic. This image reminds me about a dream I once had where I was the queen of the clouds and I had a castle made up of clouds and I could look down to the world below me.

I personally really like this image. It has been one of my favorites so far. I think this picture is really creative. I like that I can understand this image because I have a project in digital art where I have to take pictures with dream as the theme; this picture is very dream-like. I also really like the quality of this image and the bright light. I also like how on parts of the town there is a shadow where it seems like the cloud is casting it, which makes the image look realistic even though the image itself is not. I personally really enjoyed writing about this image and think it is very successful.

Marynez Cantu

12/1/2017 11:41:20 am

This photograph taken by Lissy Elle Laricchia is a very unique and eye catching picture. To begin with it seems that she took two pictures and combined them into one. Lissy took a picture from an airplane of the landscape and then she took another picture of her and her dog and then she combined them into one through Photoshop or anything similar to that app.

The lighting in this picture is really good and visible, having said that, I believe that it would have been a “better” picture if there was more light so that there wasn’t as much contrast. I really liked how she placed herself and her dog on the clouds, I think that she was trying to tell something on having placed herself there. The shadows in this picture are also very deep.

Another thing that I really liked about this picture was that the town below the clouds is very small and it’s not like New York or any big city like that that doesn’t sleep. I think that it might have been where she grew up and she showed that in the photo. I also liked the clouds that are in the photograph because they add more to the picture and since this picture is very simple, the clouds complement this photograph.

Honestly it is very hard to tell what is going on in this photograph and it would just depend on what the person or viewer sees. Personally what I see is Lissy herself touching the clouds on top of them. Her dog is also beside her on top of the clouds. This is what I see but that is just my opinion, I know that there is also people that see more to it.

In conclusion, I didn't really like this image, but what I did like was that it was very unique and I have never seen anything like it. I believe that this image could have had better lighting and Lissy could have been doing something else rather than looking at the floor. Overall it wasn´t a bad image but there could have been more to it personally in my opinion.

Josh salehi

12/1/2017 10:25:34 pm

This image by lissy file is shows a girl and a dog in the skies. The image is an composite image.the clouds look very white and the colors really pop out. I would take a smart guess and say it is obviously taken from an airplane from about 10 thousand feet in the sky. I think that this image is successful because it looks like it is real because of the masking but that's impossible to do.

I think this was shot with a deep depth of view. It also looks like it's been taken with a big aperture. I think that this image can tell a lot of stories. I also enjoy how colors reflect on each other. The clouds look really clear and it looks like the sky was very nice that day.

This picture could tell the story of a girl and her dog passed away and they are playing in heaven or it could be like a dream that the girl had with his dog. I really like this image because it looks like something that would be for a dog's magazine and it makes dog owners smile.

I would think that lissy file’s best tallet is doing composites because it is a really simple composite but it looks really complicated because it is a very clean image and well shot

The background doesn’t have that much things going on in it because it’s so high up u can’t really see the ground too well and all you can truly see are the clouds in the sky and the girl and the dog which are the two main subjects.

Troy Rollwitz

12/3/2017 05:54:40 pm

In this image by Lissy Laricchia, we see a woman calling her dog. They are standing in the clouds, over a city. The main colors is the white from the clouds, and the city background which is many different colors, but they aren’t very vibrant. The clouds and the girl are brightly lit, while the city is a little darker. The girl is on squatted down and her dog is walking over to her. The girl is also wearing winter clothes and the clouds might be supposed to look like snow.

She is using a deep depth of field. There is a line pointed towards her made up of the cloud, though it isn’t a super straight line. The girl and her dog take up a small portion of the frame. The photo was taken from very high above her, and pretty far away because the camera is tilted downward. There is no symmetry in the image.

This image reminds me of a paradise from a dream. I’ve heard people say they want to live in the clouds, and I think this picture brings that to life. The girl is with her dog, which likely means she is very happy, and they are just hanging out in the clouds. It looks like there are no more worries for her, it is just the two of them and a beautiful view. For me. This image represents a true paradise, without fancy stuff, completely natural, just a girl and her dog.

I like this image a lot because I love this sky and these wonderful views. I think it is a successful image because it looks natural, though at the same time completely unnatural. It does a good job at clearing your mind, and showing a simple paradise.

This image was definitely a composite. I think she took this image in the snow. It makes sense because she wouldn’t have to adjust the lighting that much in post, and it would be easier to cut her and the dog out because of the white background. She is also wearing a heavy jacket. The background was most likely taken from an airplane.

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