This is a group of compositions that I put together. Most of the pictures that I put together, I took them myself. These compositions reflect some of my creativity.
IMAGE #1: This first image was originally a photo I took of the Washington monument. I wanted to portray or reenactment of King Kong on the Empire State building but couldn’t find a monkey large enough via Google images, so I made due. First I made a selection of the monkey, which was surrounded by trees and hand from a branch in the original picture. I then moved the monkey to the picture of the Washington monument. After rotating the monkey to better fit the monument I selected and copied parts of the monkey (the right hand and lower part of the body) so that they were on top of the building, giving in the effect of hanging from the building. After that I began to use the healing tool on the monkey to make it a little more realistic. Lastly I changed the mode of the picture to grey scale and changed the levels to darken the picture; as well I used the burn tool to further darken the sky.
IMAGE #2: This next image is composition of several images resized and placed inside of text. It reads “DC CHILLIN” a line from a song by Wale featuring Lady Gaga. I used 8 different images that I took while in Washington sometime last month. The photos include some of the nations monuments, Howard University, and a duck. The images, because I took them, had to be resized to fit the text.
IMAGE #3: This image is basically a picture of me standing on the step of the Lincoln memorial reaching for the Washington memorial. I thought it would be a cool idea to replace the Washington memorial with the Eiffel Tower. First I used the healing tool to remove the Washington memorial from the background of the image. I then selected the Eiffel Tower from the Google image I found and dragged it to the photo of me. I then used the healing tool to fit the base of the tower better with the image of the nation mall at the end of the pool. I changed the contract and tone of the image.
IMAGE #4: This next image is a composition is a series of layers that I put together with a few color changes and a lot of use of the burn tool. First I scaled the image to fit the screen and since there was blank space at the top I painted it black. I then selected the person and made a layer via copy. I then cut out the heart attached to the wings and placed it behind the person, and used the burn tool to make it blend in better. I used a stock photo for the lightning. I selected it and dragged it to my composition and used the dodge tool to make it pop out and seem brighter.
IMAGE #5: For my next image I simply did a color change. I took this close-up photo of a bush myself. My goal was the to take the photo and make it seem more tropical like it was from a rainforest. I first changed the hue/ saturation to make the green a little brighter. I then played with the channel mixer and ended up changing a lot of the reds in the picture into blues and greens giving it that tropical feel I was looking for. I then changed the levels to dim out some of the bright spots in the picture.
IMAGE #6: This lat picture took me a lot of time. I got the idea to place Spider Man in a different environment. Both images are stock images. First I selected Spider Man from the original picture and turned him 180 degrees horizontally so he was now facing the right instead of the left. The next part was the toughest. Before I could move Spider Man to the other photo I had to remove one of the gargoyles from the building because I would replace it wit Spider Man. I used the healing tool several things before I could remove the gargoyles enough that when I change the color of the picture it wouldn’t be noticed. Next I moved Spider Man to the side of the building where the third gargoyle once was. Next I changed the color of the picture to a black and white image with a brown/ gold tint to it. After doing this I then changed the hue/ saturation to get the exact color I wanted. Next I use a filter tool to posterized the image. It came out that most of the postertization was done to the background of the image making Spider Man stand out which is what I wanted. Finally I inserted a sky to give it more of a rain effect.
SELF-EVALUATION: One thing that I find myself doing alot is making things seems to animated. There's nothing wrong with animation, its just that i personally need to think more openly about the different compositions that i choose to do. I feel that i work very well with photo-shop and that i still have a lot of things to learn, but as far as my vision, I feel i am very creativity in choosing things like color ans position and such. one thing that I really need work on is smoothing out edges to pictures that I composite with over pictures, an example being images 1, 4, and 6.
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