Friday, January 29, 2010

Self Portrait Assignment !

So this is the Self Portrait assignment, which was quite the experience. It took me awhile to figure what looks I should go with. I was instructed to pick 3 looks that look nothing like me, along with one that was a regular shot of myself. So I figured that I would just look around me for the most outrageous of props to use. It was really funny when I was taking some pictures because I was looking at myself dressed someone totally different. I loved it. It reminded me of my acting. It was like a feeling of excitement, but also a feeling of acceptance within myself because I know that I portraying someone else for a valid reason. But then, after I was reviewing the pictures, I began to identify with the different characters. It was a weird, but fulfilling feeling. So after I took the shots, it was time to use photoshop!! So, I cropped the portion of the photo that I wanted. Then I copy and pasted it to a new document, but the key was making it small enough to make 4 shots of the same picture to make a bigger shot. I did this 3 more times. It was more easier than I thought it would be. After I finished copy and pasting the 4 pictures, it was time to flatten the image, and then the picture was complete! This process was really, fun. Even though it was kind of technical, I enjoyed doing it. It was really relaxing in a way. It almost unexplainable. And below is the final product !

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Photoshop assignment !




This is a picture of a girl jumping from a cliff into the beach shore down below. This picture was originally from my motion photo. I used photoshop to cut out one of the girls and pasted her into a picture of a beach &cliff I found on google. The process happened to be a little frustrating at first. I couldnt cut around the girl as accurate as I wanted. It took me awhile to finally cut her out. Then I pasted her on the cliff on the perfect position. Once she was there, I used the eraser to try to get rid of little pieces of the pictures that she used to be in from around her outline. I had to be so delicate to when erasing. But it eventually came out nicely. Im not so proud of this picture. I think that I could have done better. But i do definitely think that I got my point across.