Self Portrait

Well, here's something a little different. We were to do a self portrait photograph that was best to describe ourselves. I couldn't think of what to do but eventually went with a game theme. I love Resident Evil, a playstation game. I decided to try and incorporate a photo of myself in with the background of the Umbrella Corporation, the corrupt organisation that devise biohazard weaponary and ultimately turns people into zombies!!!

I took some photos of myself in zombie mode (as you do...) and went with this one. Very attractive eh???

I then got the background I was looking for.

I then changed the image of myself to black and white and combined the two together using 'Serif Photo Plus'. This is my final self portrait............

 This was great craic! I loved playing with it!
So this will be part of 179 other photos and be on display soon. It'll be great seeing it up.

Papercutting

Well finally I've finished my papercutting. I had been looking at the movement of trees which then progressed to looking at the movement through the seasons.

I first measured out four sheets of card, 45cm square. Unfortunately I was only able to get white card. On one card I did an outline of a tree. I then traced this out on outline paper and drew the outline on the remaining three cards, to keep the same size throughout all cards. I added in little bits of detail relevent to the seasons e.g. bluebells for spring, butterflies for summer, mushrooms and falling leaves for autumn and starkness of winter. I cut these out with a cutting blade and cutting mat. I put a coat of black ink on each sheet. Gillian then made a frame for me and I attached rods to the top of each sheet. I inserted the 'seasons' one by one into the frame and took photographs of them. I then put some tissue paper at the back, put some coloured cellophene behind it and took more pictures. The red/orange colour was more effective.


 I played around with slotting them in together and seeing the overlap. I also reversed the 'spring' card and the white reflected well through the black. I really liked this.


At night I then got a torch and camera and recorded a film of the four seasons. Here is a link to it. Hopefully it'll work for you!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3lYr8Fqoo&feature=colike
I'm working with texture at the moment.
Further updates to come!