Night of the Living Dead
Overall, this image got a very positive reaction. Everyone seemed to think it was entertaining and well done. However, it did get two criticisms, which I agree with. One of them was that I had too many shadows in the image, which takes place at night. I had been assuming the giant looming full moon would be a pretty bright light source and although I frequently looked at the original, somehow I seemed to remember it having more shadows than it actually does. I think mine shows more (maybe too much, but I couldn't do much about it) ground than the original, which makes this shadow problem more evident. The second was about the mounting and applies to all three in the zombie series. I mounted this and its two sibling images on gravestones I bought from a Halloween store. However, the tombstones had various markings and raised decorations and it proved to be very difficult to get the images the right size and orientation on the stones to look good and hide extra decoration that distracted from the images. Someone pointed out that it would have looked better if the images were fit into the tombstones better. Maybe if they were cut out in a shape to fit around the decorations, done bigger or smaller or something. I thought of all of these things, but it ended up becoming a time and supply issue, and in the end, my scissors were just too lousy to trust them to accurately cut out details, and I just physically didn't have enough time to go find better ones or even spend the time cutting the images out or reprinting them a different size.
I really liked the idea of mounting them in an interesting, related and non-traditional manner, but I hope it doesn't distract from them instead of add as I was hoping.
Shadow Grave
This image also seemed to get a positive reception. Some people commented on how spooky and scary it was, and even wondered how I got the shadows on there (which I thought was kind of funny because this image has almost no editing, while "Night of the Living Dead" was extremely heavily edited). The only criticism it really got was the mounting issue, which I already detailed.
However, I kind of wish I would have shot the attacking zombie from a slightly different angle, because he looks a little misshapen, which I guess isn't unusual for a zombie, but I wish his head was more pronounced at least. I also already mentioned in its original post that I wished the text on the tombstone looked better, but when I asked a couple people, they thought it was fine as it is now.
Zombies in the Graveyard
I would say this image got a positive reception, but rather, it was more like an apathetic reaction, or simply a lack of criticism. I'm not sure if nothing was said because it was alright, or if was simply "alright," with nothing bad but also nothing exceptional to draw people's attention. A couple people muttered that it was neat or cool, but nothing concrete. I'm also not sure whether it was because the class wasn't exceptionally talkative that day or if that idea of it being too common is simply my own, because I'll be honest, I spent so much time working on my "Night of the Living Dead" poster, that I ran out of time to work on the others when the sheer amount of time I lost to computer problems is factored into the equation.
Horizonscape
I was surprised how much attention this image got compared to some of the other ones. People seemed to enjoy the colors of the sky the most. They also liked the vertical orientation of the image. I was considering turning it on its side so the stripes were vertical and the picture itself horizontal shaped, but everyone agreed that it looked best being tall and long. Someone even suggested that I should capture images of all different horizons for the rest of my life until the picture gets infinitely longer and longer and longer, and I do think this would look better and accomplish its idea if it were either bigger or had many more stripes to it.
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