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For this Sunday sketch, I create a staple swing. Again, this project started off with me rummaging through my pencil case for an item to start off with. What I found was a mini stapler, and from there I took out a single staple. To me, a swing instantly came to mind. However, searching for a single staple photo was impossible to find so I took my own. The swing was easier to find on internet and I chose the first one that was suitable.

The actual photoshopping process took much longer. For one, this program was new to me, and even though I am familiar with photoshop, the cropping functions had different properties that stumped me. I ended up taking a different approach to deleting the swing from the original picture and I believe it turned out well. I could have spent more time to make it look more cohesive but with the tools at hand I don’t think the time investment would be worth it.

Photo from :TreeSwing7.jpg (777×945) (themerrythought.com)

When I began thinking of ideas for this sketch, I knew I wanted to use a photo of my own. After scrolling through my camera roll for 30 minutes, I decided to use a photo of me diving into water. The background of the image wasn’t uniform, however, so after some trial and error, I realized I wouldn’t be able to find another image that aligns well with the background. Instead, I decided to crop everything but me out of the image. I struggled to think of ways I could creatively combine myself with another image. My mom used to cook dinner for us every night and recently I’ve been missing her meals, which gave me the idea for the background photo. I don’t have any images of meals she made, but my mom loved to make soup. If I was back at home right now, I know I’d “dive head first” into the food she makes.

When I first opened up the Pixlr website to start photoshopping my images for this assignment, the search bar had already been autofilled with “New York,” which featured pictures of downtown, roads, and the Statue of Liberty (guess which one I chose?). I’ve always loved visiting Lady Liberty during my trips to New York, and I am fascinated by the torch she holds. I’ve never been inside the statue, but I’ve seen a life-sized model of the torch, which was an incredible experience. In the spirit of sports season, I decided to give America’s famous landmark her very own foam finger so she can root for her favorite team! I think this image conveys our country’s love for liberty, and for sports. Freedom and justice is what many think of when seeing the Statue of Liberty, and a sense of freedom can be felt whenever one watches and/or participates in a form of a sport. For me, theatre is my sport, and I have met so many people and become part of such a tight-knit community, all of whom give me the freedom to be who I want to be!

*sorry for the image quality, I hope it manages to convey the message!

The two images I combined for my combo photo are an NFL backup quarterback and a stack of money. The meaning of the photo is pretty straightforward, demonstrating the amount of money that is actually in the NFL and that players who are 3rd string players and barely see the stage of an actual NFL game are still receiving excellent pay and are in much better financial shape than 99% of Americans. This photo also demonstrates how quickly NFL players and other players throw away their money on useless items, have some financial problems later in their lives, and even have to declare bankruptcy in some rare conditions. During this assignment, I found it challenging to combine the two images and discard the parts of one image that didn’t look good when the images were combined. In addition, it was difficult to blur the images together to make it look like one image, not two images obviously edited together. In the end, I was able to figure out the solution, and I am sure I will be more efficient the next time I perform a similar task.