Surrealism is on the horizon for my advanced/AP photo class. I wanted to practice some shooting and editing techniques, so Ansel helped me out with a quick test today. Disclaimer: The idea is 100% not mine--I saw something just like this on the internet today while browsing and brainstorming with a couple of my AP students. I just wanted to see how easy it could be to combine images when they are shot from the same angle and in the same light. I also wanted to do something Ansel would find silly. We literally did this in about 5 minutes. I composed and took the main shot of him at the table, held still while asking him to put the silverware out of the frame and pose for the "head on plate" shot, took that one, did a quick edit and that was it. I masked out everything from his chin down in the second shot, and because everything else remained the same it looks pretty seamless. I was showing him how I masked in Photoshop, and was doing so while very zoomed in. When I zoomed back out to show him our final product he laughed out loud :)
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