Wednesday, November 2, 2011

superhero project

The superhero ability in the image is walking on water.  The image on the right and the middle both show the same footstep (right foot in the water).  The sizes of the puddle show the progression of time from one photo to the next.  The picture on the left shows the next footstep (left foot in the water).  The progression of time can also be seen from the moving of the cape and the lighter to darker shades of the water.

To put this project together I made Keith run around outside and took a bunch of pictures of him moving.  Then we went to a park with a river and I took pictures of the water after dropping a stick in to get the splash images.  I used the magnetic lasso tool to place Keith in the water and erased parts of his shoe in the middle and left side pictures.  Parts of the shoe were erased to take away some of the floating-ness.

I suspected a lot of people would do their projects on either invisibility or flying, so I chose walking on water to be different.  In real life though if I could have a power it would be to fly!

Special thanks to Keith for being the subject in these photos.