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I decided that I HAD to do my self portrait about the two things I love the most. Music
and photography. The background is very "me" too because I have been described as
all the colors of the rainbow. I'm really bubbly and whatnot. The picture that I used of myself
was taken some time in high school and I just always thought it was a funny picture and
I finally had a chance to use it in my art. I placed the lens directly in the middle on purpose,
as if to show that there's a picture being taken.
I live about ten minutes away from the city, so I decided that I would visit museums in my own area. I first went to the International Center of Photography where they had the "Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris" exhibition. I really loved this because I am very interested in photography. What I enjoyed learning was that this photography played a dramatic new role in both avant-garde practice and mass culture of Paris and just the different ways that they captured scenes around Paris. They also had the Miroslav Tichy exhibition. He was an artist who made his own cameras out of random everyday products and took candid pictures of women at pools. I thought it was just incredible how he created such a powerful tool out of things that we might consider to be garbage and was able to capture such good quality photographs for the time period. The next museum I visited was "The Kitchen". I can honestly say that I have no idea what the exhibition was about. There were a bunch of television sets everywhere just playing white noise. I went in and walked right back out. I tried going to the MOMA to see the Tim Burton exhibition but unfortunately it was sold out for the day. I was very very sad. But other than that, my trip went very well and I look forward to visiting the International Center of Photography when they have a new exhibition.
The "Potter" needs to be added, but you get the point. I like Harry Potter. :)
This is probably my favorite piece of work so far. The background is really weird, which is why I was so drawn to it. The original color is the color of the background, so I had to make sure that the model was practically the same color. The tools used were the magnetic lasso tool, eraser, smudge, blur and burn tool. Curves were also altered and so were the Levels. Positioning her was interesting because there were many areas that I could have placed her, but the one that she is in now was the one where she looked most natural.
The background for this image comes from my friend's camera. He calls himself a "landscape photographer" because he has a fancy camera. Nonetheless, I liked how modern it looks which is when the dinosaur came into place. Obviously, I did not take a picture of the dinosaur, I found it on the computer on some random website. The girl that looks scared of the monster is a friend of a friend. Her picture comes directly from Facebook. The tools I used for this were eraser (a lot of eraser) the magic wand tool on my subjects and the blur and smudge tool.
I decided to choose this picture to fix. It comes from my iPhone and was taken during the snow storm. I fixed it with Brightness and Contrast among other options that I can't remember at the moment.
So here's my second composition. The background is not of TCNJ, it was taken somewhere else. This time around, I felt a bit more comfortable with using Photoshop and some of the tools to put the pictures together. Still a bit frustrating, but I'm getting there. I tried to make the dinosaur and the background blend in a little better, because i realized that the dinosaur is very sharp compared to the background. Overall, I like how this turned out.
