Planning For Assignment 5.

So here i am at the end of the course ready to take all I've learned so far and put into practice for my final assignment. What I'm asked to do is produce 12 images in the style i research in assignment 3 which was Altering Reality, this gives me a lot of scope for what i could produce because all the process given to you throughout the course can be used in one way or another to alter the realism of a photo. There are clear 2 kinds of photos that i can produce with this theme they are either ones that trick the person looking at it into believing that its real when it isn't and the second is one that clearly isn't real but yet believable in the way it appears.

I've already had a quick look on the student website just to get a idea of how other people have approach this subject and the results are quiet varied as you'd expect, one person RodTM took the approach of doing a whole series of images on the theme of unreal twins. A very clever set of image where the same person was posed in the same scene twice in different clothes and situations and then the two layer blended together seamlessly. Others had taken the approach of using all the skills they'd learn to create a group of images with no theme other than the idea of altering reality and i think this is defiantly the road i plan to go down because of the freedom of creativity this gives me within the idea.

Above is one of my first attempts where I've taking a photo and made it appear as if its almost a piece of street art because i first used an artist filter to give it the right look and then overlayed it over an image of a cracked worn surface to give it the right texture and feel. Overall very happy with this first attempt but i know i can still be far more creative yet.