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After hearing the critiques from all of the projects, there are three major things that I feel that I could have done differently for a stronger collection of images, in addition to smaller composition changes.

1) Visit South Congress more times. While I visited South Congress three times, I don’t feel that it was enough. I don’t think that I let myself really explore all of the little niches. As a naturally shy person, I think I just felt awkward taking pictures in a very public place; I’d much rather take the pictures at home or along a secluded nature trail. The hustle of the city just doesn’t interest me as much for photography.

2) Selected more images in my composition. I think I just felt very overwhelmed by the project and trying to relate my images to the Gestalt principles that I didn’t give myself enough time to enjoy the task of taking the pictures, and thus I felt limited in the images I could choose from in the final selection.

3) Take pictures as interesting subjects rather than subjects composed of Gestalt. I think I limited myself in general by trying to force the Gestalt principles onto my images, and I let that dominate what I saw through the camera. I didn’t take pictures for the sake of them having an interesting composition.

Additionally, the technical presentation of my images wasn’t the way that I had wanted it to be. Ideally, the images would have been seen horizontally, so that the viewers could see the continuity that united the images, instead of them being viewed vertically. I suppose my shy personality came into play here because I didn’t ask anybody if they knew of a way to make this possible in the blog. The image composition has been changed below to better reflect the continuity of the curve.

Below are screen captures of my favorites folders, collections, different file extensions, and keywords in both Bridge and Lightroom, although Bridge was primarily used for the project.

Below are the images that I selected to use for my Gestalt project. These images focus on the Gestalt principles of continuity and repetition. I used the natural curvatures of the subjects to draw the viewers’ eyes from one side of the piece to the other. The use of the mosaic tiles, triangular stones, and metal rungs of the seat help to provide the eyes with a natural sense of movement and continuity, and they also provide repetition as a guiding force for said movement. Additionally, if these images were to be placed horizontally next to each other, the movement from left to right would still exist across the span of the images. [Link to screen captures]

©2015, Loren Gamez
Gestalt Project 1 of 3
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©2015, Loren Gamez
Gestalt Project 2 of 3
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©2015, Loren Gamez
Gestalt Project 3 of 3
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