Nature In My Backyard
By: Jia Wen Lin
photoshop 
The concept for my diptych is to show the beauty of nature and how strong nature could be. I wanted to show that nature is a very beautiful thing and even during dark times, there is always something beautiful waiting for you.
For the image on the left, I went to my backyard and took multiple pictures of a basket of fake lowers hanging on the fence. I thought it looks nice, so I decided to recreate it for this project. Originally, there was nothing involve. Since the picture looks a bit plain, I decided to add water. In the end, I really like how the water droplets turns out. If you look closer, you could kind of see some reflection in the water splash and droplets.
For the photoshop image, the first thing I did was I photoshop the part of my hand holding the spray bottle. I duplicated four times. Two of my hand holding the bottle is pointing to the image in the left, so it looks like I’m spraying water. The other two of my hand is pointing at the leaves on the top left corner. It is supposed to represent the nature and all the beautiful things that we often see in day-to-day life. The background is light pink because nature is supposed to be bright and beautiful. At first, there was only one hand, but I feel like it’s very plain, so I added three more to it. The hand and the staircase looking thing is supposed to separate the dark times and the bright times. The black background in the lower right side represents the dark times. I put some leaves in the black background to say that beautiful things can also grow in dark times.
If I had more time, I hope to change the saturation of the no Photoshop image. I also want to change the colors to make it look brighter.