As a Visual Communication major, I find myself wearing several different hats. Though I didn’t love the movie, I loved the layout of the “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen” movie poster and thought it would be fun to spoof it! I certainly felt like a teen putting this together–I changed my outfit nine times and took over a hundred and fifty selfies to get the right photos for this project! Self-portraits are really difficult when you don’t have a trigger or anything to focus on it. I also had pretty poor lighting. The photo WITH my camera was the most awkward to take and edit, since I had to use my bathroom mirror to take it. Even so, I had a lot of fun with this! Here are the original photos:
To edit the photos, I relied mostly on selection tools (lasso and quick selection), two adjustment layers (for hue and saturation), and the brush and eraser tools for airbrushing my terrible complexion and sculpting out the stray hairs I couldn’t select. For the photos I used my Canon DSLR and a tripod. Since I don’t have a trigger, I had to set a ten second timer, focus the shot on my chair, and then run into the shot before it took. I’m sure there must be a simpler way! If I wanted to put more time into the project I’d probably refine the airbrushing some more, and try to make the photography image match better than it currently does. It looks pretty scary.