Communications Lab - Week 4
This week we were working with Photoshop to create one "realistic" picture out of 5 photos. The ones that we chose were already in digital format, so there was no need to scan them in. We wanted to create a picture where we were all together. We started looking at backgrounds we could use and then take our whole body shots and photoshop them in. But we didn't have good shots of us with our full bodies in the shot. So we decided to look for a photo on the internet that we could paste ourselved into. We each worked on fitting in our own heads to our new cheerleading bodies. It took me a while to get my head to be the right size and at the right angle. The cheerleader's head who I replaced had no neck showing, but in order for me to cover up her head and my head to not be too big, I had to grab some neck from my picture...either that or my head would look enormous.
Once we were happy with our heads, we created a new layer for each head and copied them in. Unfortuanetly when we pasted in our heads to the new layers, the placement wasn't the same, so we had to redo it some once we got it in. The colors must have been different on the different stations we were working on, because when we transfered them over, some of them looked brighter and the other looked darker. So we adjusted the colors once again. Then, we had a picture of a banana, and thought it would be funny if we were holding it...and if the two girls on the outside were holding bananas, we wanted something for the girl in the middle, hence the fruit hat. I think it turned out pretty good.
Bitforms
This weekend I took a walk up to Chelsea to see Daniel Rozin's installations at Bitforms. It was such a beautiful day outside, and I quite enjoyed walking through the city. That's one of the best things about living in New York. Just walking through the city is so peaceful...even if you are surrounded by hoards of people and sirens swirling around you, there's something soothing about it when you're not in a rush.
For me his work is so inspiring. His works are very artistic and engaging. And behind each one of his pieces is science and mathmatics. Coming from a science background, it's really fascinating for me to think about what into creating his vision. Breaking up each pixel, manipulating it, or transforming it to spinning disks to reflect the image back. It helps inspire me to continue thinking about using my technical background and creating artistic applications with them.
