This “historical” photograph is a Jefferson Airplane album cover – one of my favorite bands. Initially, I thought of incorporating myself into a photograph from Woodstock, but most photographs are of large crowds or individual artists which I thought might be challenging. I then searched “Jefferson Airplane Woodstock” to find a picture of the entire band thinking I may have more success. I came across the Surrealistic Pillow album cover and decided to run with it. I knew I had a picture (selfie) of myself with John Lennon/hippie glasses on thanks to a Snapchat filter. The photo turned out to be a video, so a played it and paused when I thought there would be a good still image. I took a screenshot of the image and imported it to MS Word along with the album cover. I played around for a while with some settings I was unfamiliar with. I know way better photo processors exist, but MS Word is surprisingly powerful! I cropped the image to best make it work with the album. I played with colors but the pink tinge of the glasses from Snapchat fit with the pink border in the album. I faded the edges of my selfie to try to make it blend more. Obviously, it’s not perfect, but now there’s at least a seventh member of the band.
(I did not see Cripps’ example first. I looked at it just after posting today’s DS106 assignment. Coincidence!)
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