Fibonacci
Overview
I created a poster that incorporated the golden ratio. This is a double exposure poster project. This poster represents little pieces of me. For example, the New York Skyline in bottom represents where I was born, whereas the Bengal Tiger represents my Bengali Heritage, and lastly the space image in the background represents my curiosity of the unknown and just my love of space. The project includes a blending technique, image retouch, and image manipulation using Photoshop. After I get done with it in photoshop, I go through the process of printing it in the printing lab.
Process
I started out first looking for some examples of the golden ratio and got inspired by an example of a galaxy spiral to get started in this project. I am a huge space nerd and I knew I wanted to incorporate the golden ratio of a space spiral in my project. Next I had to figure where I would take the piece and then I thought I am already incorporation one piece of me why not add more. So I came up with the idea to incorporate my roots like my home state New York and my Bengali heritage by using the New York Skyline and the Bengal Tiger into my composition.
Then I had to figure out the layout and I took some time playing around with it and then I came up with a layout that I liked. While playing with the layout I created the desired background by blending two space images and added effects to them to get the desired look. Then that layout gave me the idea to create a scenery going from Earth to space. Then I touched up the color of the images and added effects to get the desired look. Thus I started to use blending techniques to achieve a uniform look and then I wanted to make the tiger’s eyes pop and be the start of the focal point so I created a glowing effect on the eyes. Then I wanted to finish off the piece with cool quote about space since that what started this journey and ended up gravitating towards this quote from Neil Degrasse Tyson.
After I got done I decided to go print it in the print lab but I ran into some problems. When I printed the first copy, it looked dark and didn’t reflect the digital version. I found out that the printer couldn’t print 16 bit color and had to change the digital copy to 8 bit and make some adjustments to get it so a desired result. After playing around and tweaking the poster I printed it again and got a much better result this time.
The Final Product
