Week 3

Assignment: Mash-up: Select a photo from the Lincoln era and the contemporary pictures that I wanted to put together to create a message.

Craft: I selected a photo from the recent pictures first and then found one of lincoln where his head matched up as close as possible. Using photoshop I opened both pictures and selected the area from both that I wanted to use. Using the marquee tool I cut around the head of Lincoln and placed it over the head in my contemporary picture. Then I used tools such as transformation to adjust/fix the scale, rotation, skew/distort. I also adjusted the brightness/contrast of the image along with the hue/saturation to make the colored photo match the black and white from lincoln's photo. I had to go back and to some of the layers to make the images blend together the best I could. I also used the blur tool and eraser to fix the images.

Composition: I changed the photos form the ones I choose previously because I wanted to but lincoln's face on a person. The message I wanted to send by mixing these two photos together was that if Lincoln was in our time he would have been a normal college student. I saw him as being more of the type to stay in study and do his chores. Hence the picture of him doing laundry. I see him as being organized and seperating his clothes. The long hair makes him seem almost like a hippie once again in the wrong time period. Before Lincoln might have been seen as ahead of his time now perhaps he is slightly behind.

Concpet: I want to change the picture by adding meaning to some of the objects in the picture. For example I want to make the shirt have something to do with Illinois because I believe that is where he would have went to school. I also would want to somehow make the school colors orange and blue stand out in that photo. Another thing I need to fix is the body is too young for the face and the coloring is slightly off. I could also make his shirt representative of the hippie idea or anything to add meaning.