11/22
I just started my journal, and have decided to make a more surreal montage image like the ones we’ve seen in class. So far, I’ve included a photo of a lake I had taken earlier today (it’s Thanksgiving Break). I added in a small pier from the day prior and cut out the rest of the image to add to the lake. I used an image from my street photography to add a subject in the foreground, and for scale. Using generative fill, I removed a few ducks from the water.
11/24
I experimented with swapping out the background above the horizon line because the first lake photo took up so much of the image. I really wanted to add buildings in some way, something you wouldn’t see in a natural landscape like this. Using some images I had of buildings in New York City, as well as a shot from the overlook of Bethlehem, I cut out a few using the polygonal lasso tool and experimented with placement. Initially I tried to make the buildings fit into the background in some way, but found it was too difficult because of the way the images had been cropped. Instead, I montaged a few and flipped them upside down for a futuristic and dystopian look. I’m trying to find something to add to the lake to fill some negative space. Using a layer mask, I erased the part of the buildings that were pasted over the lamppost.
11/25
Today I went to my local high school’s hockey game with a few friends that were on the team. I attempted some motion photography, but ended up just taking some sports photography of the team. I used clipping masks and the lasso tool to cut out some of the players. I will find a way to make them fit a little more cohesively with the rest of the image in class.
11/28
I figured out how to add reflections on the surface of the lake by copying and pasting the hockey player cutouts and flipping them vertically in their masks. I decreased the opacity and used the eraser tool as necessary. I experimented with Photoshop’s AI generative fill to add a hockey puck to the image, because the players weren’t visibly chasing anything. I wanted a regular black hockey puck but AI kept producing a white one, so I settled for that. Since the lighting and colors in the various images were all a little different, I added the “sunshine” filter and a few other subtle filters to darken the image slightly, which helped make coloring and lighting more universal throughout the image. I found that this filter also brought out the building lights more which was a pleasant surprise.
