Self Portrait

[jellotranz]

ok so obviously its not my self portrait. This was shot yeasterday for my wife's Art Class. The assignement was to create a self portrait using one of the styles studied in class. For this picture she choose to do surrealism. 28 Pictures were used to create the final image. Still have a bit of cleanup here and there...

[kat]

That is pretty cool!

[Marko]

It no longer looks like a photograph but it is a very striking image with lots of interesting sections to look at.

[jellotranz]

You should see it large!! The initial background is done via stitching 3 shots together for a total pixel size of 10512X7008. At first I didn't think much of the post as it didn't look much like a photograph anymore, but when you see the image 45"X30" its very cool. You can't stop looking at it to see what else you missed the first time.. I'm still looking for Waldo... lol

[Gem]

VERY cool! That sticker on the sink (?) *did* make me smile =)

[jellotranz]

VERY cool! That sticker on the sink (?) *did* make me smile =)

lol, that was actually taken from a anti-abortion protest we shot a month or so.

[F8&Bthere]

I don't have any critique really but hope it's still okay if I say that I find this image very interesting. So much going on. I love this style, and wish I had the subjects and PS savvy to pull off images like this- maybe some day. If I had to find something I would change, it might be to try removing all the animals except the ducks in a row on the left side and the white bunny or whatever that is is on balloon lady's lap. It screams social commentary so the nature parts seem sorta out of place (to me anyway, but I'm sure you had a purpose for them). So maybe I'm saying it almost has too much going on? Still really cool. Awesome work.

[tirediron]

I'm not smart enough for images like this, but it's well done. How about posting a Cole's Notes on what all you did to produce this image?

[jellotranz]

and wish I had the subjects and PS savvy to pull off images like this- maybe some day.

This really wasn't hard to do at all and really requires only minimal PS skills. Someone else asked how we did it so later tonight or tomorrow I will write up what we did both in camera and post to create the image.