Shake it Like a Polaroid Picture

Original photo,
Image he nurses from the series Silent Hill

My polaroid Picture!

I believe the strongest aspect to my work is providing a stark contrast between the background and the image in the polaroids. The original picture is very morbid and dark, but the background is a lot brighter and has this pop to it. The cut on some of the body parts are kind of bad. Specifically the cut on the right nurse's head is not precise. The good thing is that it isn't very noticible from afar.

The easiest part of the activity was probably picking a background color. I knew I wanted something bright, and sorta feminine, so it could provide a good contrast from the original image. The most difficult part was trying to plan the rest of the background. It always felt empty, and it still does. I don't feel like there is much I could have added though.

I did a lot of stuff to demonstrate the objective of creating the illusion of scattered polaroids on a table that create one image, with several elements breaking the plain. I used the polaroids to frame the main subjects of the image, and used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the rest of the image. I broke the plain 4 separate times, which I accomplished this by using a combination of the eraser tool and the lasso tool. For the background, I used a gradient to alter the color to a hot pink. For the objects, I used the lasso tool to cut them out from their background and then used a filter to give it this green affect. I'm pretty happy with my project and wouldn't want to change much about it. I like the picture I chose and wouldn't pick another image.