For my Graphic Design project I incorporated photos of myself, my favorite gym’s logo, and a background image of weights. I tried to make the photo really represent my topic in general, which is fitness. I will cover many aspects of fitness this semester, what it is, how it affects us, my personal relationship with it, and how it can benefit each and every single one of us. I decided to do a brochure photo with images that were very fitness related.
Originally, I made the background image very pronounced, making it the focus of the main image. I wanted the photo to look very dramatic and pronounced, while still giving a very athletic feel. I lowered the opacity on my photos to make them fade in the photo, so the photos of me weren’t so pronounced.
After receiving suggestions from peers and friends of mine, I heard a lot of feedback about it looking “intimidating”. Which I came to agree with, the focus of the photo was not of me, it was of weights and the Gold’s Gym logo. So I went back onto the photo and edited the shadows/highlights to make the background photo more gentle. I then proceeded to lower the opacity of the Gold’s Gym logo, to make it so it was not the focus of the image. Lastly, I edited the photos of me, creating some more shadows to them and raised the opacity so they were more of the focus of the photo. One of my friends told me that one of my photos was placed unnaturally so I lowered that too, and it looks significantly better.
I spent a large portion of my time re-watching the tutorial videos and looking up fun techniques to use on YouTube. I am grateful that we did the tutorial assignment last week because I would have had a very hard time creating this image. I obtained the photo of the weight room and the Gold’s Gym logo by looking online for free photos. The photos of me were taken by my close friend, Jarid Adams, for his app Train Centric. Please feel free to scroll down to my “Image Collection” post on my webpage to see his signature to allow me to use these photos. I’d like to take a second and thank you for reading my blog post and feel free to leave suggestive comments below. I am excited to spend this semester discussing what fitness means to me and I hope you are too! Thank you!
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