2nd (belated) post

Whoops - I guessed I missed the blog portion of our assignment. I'll play a little catch-up.

For the second assignment, I based the topic of my images on the digital pictures I had available to me. Although I own a digital camera, I don't take too many pictures. I teach engineering technologies, and I had some pictures of my students surveying. I took my only picture that included the students' entire body and placed him in an interesting setting that would "work" with what he was doing, which was surveying. I thought that an easily recognizable background which would sort of go with surveying was the Egyptian Pyramids. The hardest thing to do was to get the shadows to work out right. In my opinion, the drop shadow feature is rather limited, unless I am just not aware of all the ways to manipulate it. So I ended up drawing the student's shadow free hand and filling in the outline with the paint bucket tool.

I ended up spending so much time on this image, that my other two weren't nearly as good. I made a picture of my dog, George, balancing several balls (football, tennis ball, etc.) on his head, and picture of my wife on the deck of a cruise ship, with a shark leaping out of the water in the background.

I like to make my images comical by juxtaposing things you wouldn't ordinarily see, so I will attempt to my my future images as funny as possible.