The assignment we were given was to make a box called photographic truth using pictures from movies or history and making yourself part of them. We were told to use pictures that represent something that happened in the world and make ourselves part of it. The steps i took for this project was listening to the instructions given by the teacher, picking a topic, finding pictures based on the topic i chose, taking pictures of me to use, and then actually working on the project.
My book has six pictures that i chose for the project of a tragedy that happened in the past. I chose to alter images from the holocaust that show people being viewed after they were dead, or people just coming into the concentration camps. I added myself to theses images by putting my face on the bodies of the people that were living in the time of the holocaust. The tools i needed to use was the crop tool, the eraser tool, the magnetic lasso tool, changing the brightness and the saturation on some of the photos, and on some photos the filter tool.
The theme i chose to work on was black and whit pictures of the holocaust. I chose this theme because the holocaust was a big tragedy not only for the people that were jewish or even people that were not, but for the pain it cause many people around the world. My presence alter the meaning because it shows a view of someone who never experience the holocaust being part of the mark the holcaust left on our history.
I've learned many new things about photographic truth. I learned how to alter images and make myself a part of the pictures and part of the life that i never had to live through. I learned the ways you can make yourself someone your not and still fit into the image. I enjoyed this assignment because it taught me more ways on how to use photoshop. The project was a little difficult in some ways but it other ways it was quite easy. I think i was very successful in my creation because i was able to alter the images in the way i wanted to. If i were to do the project over again i would probably put more effort into fitting my whole self into the pictures than just putting my face in them.
