Project 1 Idea: Mill Avenue

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For our next class project I have decided that I am going to photograph Mill Avenue and show the difference of the activity on the street from daytime to nighttime. I am going to focus on one specific corner or intersection and photograph different areas of that corner at various times throughout the day. I am hoping that my final product will be an odd view of the corner with different values of light and different exposure times ranging from long exposures to stop action. When I piece all of my images together I want it to have sort of a choppy look to it, I don't want the pictures to blend smoothly. There will be some negative space that I also plan on working with. I'm excited to get started!

The Terminator of Good Music.

My image of Justin Bieber portrays him as The Terminator of Good Music. I got this idea from the fact that his songs are usually about nothing important, either he wants to be your girlfriend or he really likes calling a girl 'baby'. Over the past few years Bieber has grown to be a huge idol for many young preteens. To me it is quite sad because kids need to be listening to music that has a meaning, which is not a Justin Bieber song. So in my opinion he has become The Terminator of Good Music, which comes out December 21st, 2012.

To get this image I first started off with taking a picture of the original Terminator and cutting out the part of his face that is bloody and torn up and then I layered it onto the picture of Bieber and did some minor blending effects to get it to look like it was actually apart of Bieber's face. The next step was getting his body to look like a robot, I took a picture of a silver robot from the movie 'The Terminator' and then did the same thing that I did with his face. I just added a few more layers to give it a rusty effect. For the background I just got an image of a microchip off of Google and blew it up so it covered the entire image and then made the opacity really low so it barely showed over the black background. Lastly, to get the title of The Terminator to fade the way it did was I took the words off of the original move poster and placed it on my image twice so that it gave it that faded effect. The rest of the text was put there just by using the text tool on the toolbar of Photoshop. I loved this project and I'm really happy with how mine turned out!