Final outcome

To choose my final image I looked over all of the edits that I have done which have been posted in the previous two posts. Having used the same eight base photographs for each of the experiments, I then produced eight different sets of experiments using different viewfinder layers.  I put all of the experiments together and first decided which of the base images (being the one involving a part of the body) to see which one worked the best. Having decided on that I then needed to choose which of the viewfinder layers over the top of the image worked best, gave the best impact and looked effective. Here is the image that I have chosen to use as my final outcome.

After deciding of this images I needed to refine it a little, it needed a little bit of touching up as the numbers across the bottom were a little bit grainy so I have sharpened them to make them stand out a bit more using the clone tool I covered up any areas around the numbers that have gone a little bit discoloured. After the touch ups that I did, the whole piece looked better than before.

I think this piece works well as my final outcome, I feel I have managed to get across the point I wanted, that we have become that reliable and dependent of cameras that they have started to be like our second set of eyes. This piece suggests that due to the layering, how I have used the bottom image of someone completing the task of putting money into a machine, I have taken that image from their point of view, showing what they are seeing from their eyes, I think this helps the outcome a lot, if the viewpoint was different, it would of changed the outcome completely. I then took a photograph of what I could see through the viewfinder of my camera, showing the battery life, the Shutter Speed, the f-stop - aperture and the ISO.  To get the viewfinder grid, I found an image on the internet. I feel that by putting all of these layers together I have been able to produce a successful piece that I feel shares my point about cameras.