Need a little class input....... help please

I kept working and decided that I like these 2 better but cannot pick just one.......HELP please!

Work in Progress

I plan to continue with this and make one of each of our 4 tractors. I really liked the idea of playing with hdr and making them look unreal..... im still not positive on what size I will end up printing them but it will be slightly bigger then 8x10 for sure. Im gonna come up with so other way to display these other then in a normal frame.

final project proposal

Im not quite positive if this is what my final project will end up being but its my plan so far. I want to create a series of hdr photos. I want to use photos of our family tractors in country settings. I have a real interest for hdr photos but have not really had any pratice. Also with the subjects being our tractors it makes this really personal for me. I haven't really given much thought to printing other then that they will be printed. I want them to be bigger than a normal 8x10 but thats as far as I've got. I don't plan to appropriate any material for this project.

assignment 4 Final

I spent way to much time trying to come up with something to do for this project so in my moving around photoshop this is what I came up with. I used patterns and layer masks to make the images that I did it took forever. I used the rock and nature patterns and tried to use the most colorful so you could notice a change. I wish I would of used some of my own images but I wasn't thinking.

assignment 3

 

I mapped an image of clutter. I grouped like brand objects by spray painting over the emblems with their brand colors. John Deere - Green, International Harvester- Red, Massey Ferguson- Orange..... the pink was all the liquids like oil, paint and what not. I did not appropriate anything and there was not really a mood that I was trying to convey. 

work in progress

I have not decided if I will change my markers yet and I plan to connect the dots of the same color to eachother. I got the idea when I walked into a very disorganized barn where they had this mix of tractor parts. So I decided to mapp the different brands (john deere, international harvester, massey ferguson). I also went a step further trying to add more points.

assignment 3 ideas

What do you plan to visually map for your assignment?  Why does this interest you?            - I have spent alot of time this weekend trying to decided what to actually do my project on and haven't come to a definitive answer yet. I'm hoping to do something that incorporates music. Mainly because I have been thinking about music so much this weekend while trying to get use to my XM radio.  
Describe, in detail, how you plan to construct your piece.  Post a sketch or images if  appropriate.
          - I haven't decided if I'm going to go the route of addressing genres of music, bands or lyrics. Right now though the lyrics are pulling ahead. Do you plan to appropriate imagery?  If so, how will you borrow without violating copyright law?
       - I don't not plan to have to appropriate imagery for this project.
Which artists/thinkers/writers have influenced your ideas?
        - I didn't really pick one that had alot of influence but Lee Byron, the guy I picked for the visual complexity assignment was the one that put me on this track of mind. But knowing my luck I'll change my entire idea before its over.

Visual Complexity

I really found Lee Byron's Listening History was very interesting. He followed one users music listening from a website for a total of 18 months. It makes for a stimulating image but the explanation is a little confusing. I think it would be interesting to try and display the same information in a less confined.

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=460&index=17&domain=Music

Assignment 2

I made this image by combine different images that I found online some from the public domain and other free sources and some that were ok to use due to fair use.
 I originaly was not planning on going this route with my project I inteded to make a sterotypical image of a farmer, but was having a hard time getting into it. Also my dad made a comment over the weekend that sparked a new idea and this spit balled from it. Im still not very happy with it and eventually just had to call it quits because I  was making no progress. My dad made a comment about "rich farmers", so i went with it I tried to combine the new equipment thats very expensive and having the money round bale, then the new truck, yet there are these old buildings and small amounts of field showing.
I thought it would work to show that alot of people think that farmers are rich, when in all honesty they struggle, they have debts, they work hard long hours.