Food

Exploding Ball

For this, I took a picture of Javi's string ball thing. I quick selected shards of broken glass and duplicated that process many times. I then warped and erased parts to make sure no two pieces look similar. Then I clumped some together for the initial break and spread the bigger ones out further away. The smudge tool was a bit of a pain, it never really came out well.

Puppet Warp

I warped Richard's arms so that they were touching his head. I quick selected his body  and refined it. Then after some saving, I used the puppet warp tool and various layers to get his arms to touch his head. Finally I filled out the content and merged a duplicate to polish it.

Repeating Flash

We had failed initially with getting good pictures. Our background was messed up so we went inside the darkroom. Richard and I tried using the hoola-hoop and were unsuccessful with timing. Gabi had an idea of standing in front as we throw the hoop behind. Then I thought of encircling Gabi with the hoop like a transporting thing from Star Trek, and that turned out good. The image has good spacing between hoop rings, simplistic background and good focus.

Painting with Light

My intended message behind this related to the environment and trash consumption. This photo reminded me of my APES class sophomore year and how trash is a crucial component to environmental degradation. I tried to make curly "Q's" like Pigpen from Snoopy. I had Gabi hold the shutter button while I used finger lights to create the lights coming out of the trash can. I also flashed the trash can in the beginning. Edits include contrast, shadows and color.