Art Project

For the art project since I didn’t have a portrait photo of myself I decided to take a portrait of actress Anne Hathaway and insert it in the famous American Gothic painting. Overall, my final piece didn’t end up how I wanted it to. The face of Anne Hathaway doesn’t cover the entire face of the woman in the American Gothic painting. I didn’t want to manipulate the portrait of Anne Hathaway too much by resizing it because her face would either end up looking disproportional, too big, or too small. In the end I just ended up going with the too small because it looked better than the other options. Overall the process of creating the image was not too hard, the only real problem I had was overlaying the two faces together.

Somewhere Project

For the somewhere project I decided to insert a photo of me and my best friend Jasmine into a still from the 1991 film Thelma and Louise. Thelma and Louise happens to be one of my all-time favorite films. At the start of this project I was having a hard time figuring out what type of background setting would look the best for the photo that I choose to use for this project. After looking around for some time I came across the still from the film where Thelma and Louise are standing In the car. I felt as though the still image fits perfectly as the background for the picture I choose of me and my best friend. Overall this project was pretty simple and not too hard. I defiantly think my final photo could use a little more work to make it look more realistic but I’m proud of what I was able to accomplish.

Autoscopy Project

For the photoshop project we were asked to simply take ten photos, preferably ones we’ve taken, and manipulate them in Photoshop which for the most part was pretty easy. I’m really into photography, I shoot digitally and on 35mm, and when I heard we had the chance to manipulate photos I got pretty excited. I’ve never used Photoshop to its full potential because I honestly don’t edit the pictures I take because I take them mostly for fun. Overall, I really enjoyed manipulating my photos because some of the adjustment layers made my photos look really different and cool. Of all the images I edited my favorite one is the one of the palm trees. I honestly don’t remember what I did to eventually have the photo end up looking like how it does. The sky in this image looks weirdly like it’s the end of the world and everything is burning. It looks like something you might see in an apocalypse movie poster of something.