Monday, February 13, 2012

Exercise 3

Perspective with Snow at Night
This perspective was created by Photoshopping a snow covered treeline over an overcast sky, then the snowline was extended forward to change the perspective angle slightly.  Then the elements such as the boardwalk were created out of pictures of textures and materials.  shadows were dropped on the snow where needed and the sign and person were added.  a layer mask was used to create the darkness and parts were erased and tinted for the lights in the snow.  Lastly the snowfall was placed over the whole thing so it was not dimmed by the mask, reflecting ambient light.

Section of Phytoremediation Process
This section shows the phytoremediation process in a selected area of the site. The soil is gradually cleaned in phases by the encroaching roots from the poplar trees and annual plants such as indian mustard and ryegrass, the myco- and bioremediation techniques are not shown here due to the scale, but they are also used in the soil.
This was created by using image overlays of different plants, trees, and materials for the upper layer, and soil cross sections and root patterns for the lower.  The contaminated soil areas were greyed out and division lines show the jumps from phase to phase. These and the text were added in Illustrator.



Plan of Site
This plan was created on top of the existing image pulled from Google maps. The trees and plant textures were added to show dominant growth and plant palettes during one of the phases.  This was put together in Photoshop.