For my first activity from the ds106 assignment bank I picked from the Visual Assignments section. I chose The Civil War Photo assignment, The Civil War Photo. For this activity I first tried to get creative with my attire. Unfortunately, I do not have any Civil War era costumes at my fingertips, so I made do with what I had. This consisted of a denim button down top, a navy bath towel, and my roommates cowgirl boots. Somehow this combination made sense in my head, let me know what you think about the final product? Then for the staging of the photo I posed as if I had no clue where the camera was, and with a very stoic facial expression. For the editing process of this assignment I simply applied a black and white filter from my iPhone onto the image. Then just to adjust it slightly from the plain black and white option I raised the level of the black and white to higher on the shadow/dark side of the spectrum. The end result, a hilarious modern day remake of a Civil War era woman.

I attempted to edit this photo by turning it black and white and searching through filters on my iphone to give that grungy look. I didn’t have any props to look like a civil war era person but I used a chair to resemble the original picture on this assignment.

I tried to model this picture as close to the assignments description picture as possible, because I found it funny. I actually really like the aesthetic of the picture and the overall editing of the colors. I rarely take pictures of me let alone me being serious, which is actually a pretty cool to see in a semi-decent picture.