I tend to get frustrated with myself more often than not. I always feel like I am my own worst enemy. I am the only person standing in my way of happiness. This image is a reflection of the battle within.  Sometimes when it’s time to get something done the darker side of me takes control and puts my innocent side in it’s place.

  I sat down in my bed thinking of ideas of what I could do to create a “shocking message.” I found myself in a great debate with myself once again.  I would come up with something that I thought to be a good idea, and then just as quickly I would dismiss it as not being good enough.  After doing that a couple times I decided to try and come up with a way to portray that in a shocking manner.  In the same way that I kept shooting down my own ideas as quickly as I could think of them, I decided that I would create a picture where I am shooting down myself.

  This piece is a composite of eight different images into one. First, I placed my camera on a tripod and attached a remote so I would be able to take pictures of myself efficiently. I envisioned what part of me would love to do with the other during one of my heated inner arguments and posed accordingly. After taking these pictures I realized I had certain limitations on my props and environment. To make up for these limitations I turned to google and I found six other images. With all my images in hand I then opened my dear friend photoshop. I started by taking each individual picture and erasing what I didn’t need. After that I coordinated and placed all the images together using layers. From there I tried to make the image as seamless as I could by burning, dodging, transforming, applying filters and color enhancements, and other various actions. I later used the brush tool to make the image seem a bit more magical. In the end I felt the image accurately portrayed how I feel about myself and my long lasting inner debates.

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  I tend to get frustrated with myself more often than not. I always feel like I am my own worst enemy. I am the only person standing in my way of happiness. This image is a reflection of the battle within.  Sometimes when it’s time to get something done the darker side of me takes control and puts my innocent side in it’s place.

  I sat down in my bed thinking of ideas of what I could do to create a “shocking message.” I found myself in a great debate with myself once again.  I would come up with something that I thought to be a good idea, and then just as quickly I would dismiss it as not being good enough.  After doing that a couple times I decided to try and come up with a way to portray that in a shocking manner.  In the same way that I kept shooting down my own ideas as quickly as I could think of them, I decided that I would create a picture where I am shooting down myself.

  This piece is a composite of eight different images into one. First, I placed my camera on a tripod and attached a remote so I would be able to take pictures of myself efficiently. I envisioned what part of me would love to do with the other during one of my heated inner arguments and posed accordingly. After taking these pictures I realized I had certain limitations on my props and environment. To make up for these limitations I turned to google and I found six other images. With all my images in hand I then opened my dear friend photoshop. I started by taking each individual picture and erasing what I didn’t need. After that I coordinated and placed all the images together using layers. From there I tried to make the image as seamless as I could by burning, dodging, transforming, applying filters and color enhancements, and other various actions. I later used the brush tool to make the image seem a bit more magical. In the end I felt the image accurately portrayed how I feel about myself and my long lasting inner debates.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/design-to-shock/