This project taught me the most about Photoshop, in terms of editing out parts of an image like a stick that holds up a paper text bubble, and how color saturation can affect the tone of an image. For example, I reduced the saturation on A Great Misfortune to give a more somber tone, whereas I did not do the same on Canadian Bacon. My favorite is most definitely A Great Misfortune, because I think it was my most creative idea. I was challenged in this assignment when I was trying to find inspiration, I found that my house doesn't have many small toys, so I made do with what I could find. The ideas I generated mostly by simply wandering around my kitchen until something caught my eye. I think I was semi-successful in this assignment, but I think my exposure and composition were just off in a few of the images, which I would fix by retaking them if I had more time.

This assignment also taught me alot in Photoshop, like effectively removing backgrounds and shrinking images in layers. As you can see, the lighting on the images of me is off kilter with the lighting in the photos I edited myself into, which I would have fixed by taking them at the locations and/or in different ambiances of light if I'd had more time. In this assignment, I'm not sure which is my favorite, because they both could be improved by greater attention to detail. I think overall, I was semi-successful, but now knowing what I learned in Photoshop, I could have done them more quickly and make them look more natural. In Seriously? Again? I decided to take a different approach than using nature, or an object in the real, non-pixelated world. The image was inspired by my recent Broadcast work for PBS SRL, and how my software was behaving before a much needed hard-drive de-clutter.