Art410: Post #10

Round 1 for Indeterminacy (Chance) Project...

My Recipe:

1. First things first, find a coin and flip it. This will be the deciding factor of whether you'll be taking horizontal photographs or vertical photographs for this project. Heads will be Horizontal and Tails will be Vertical.
   
   
2. Now for one entire day, take a couple of photos whenever you find yourself waiting for something (it could be anything: waiting for the bus, your class, dinner, laundry, ect.). The photos should be taken of things that you find visually appealing! The first thing that catches your eye and that you find interesting after looking at it for a bit (it could be a piece of gum on the ground, a person, a building, ect.). Also, don't worry about your photos being perfectly composed, meaning not to worry about composition or framing. Simply take a photo!
   
   
3. By the end of the day you should have compiled a good selection of photos. Open them into photoshop or any other photo editing program.
   
   
4. Now, depending on what you know how to do on photoshop (for example, if you know how to make a collage or working with masks or layering images and then flattening the image to create one image, ect.) tear that many pieces of paper. Then write "1" on one piece of paper, "2" on the second piece of paper, "3" on the third and so on. It's up to you to choose which editing option corresponds to each number. Here's what I did: (1)Collage, (2)Layers, (3)Simple Masking, (4)Panoramic/Stitching, and (5)Simply working with Filters. Once you've done that, mix all your pieces of paper in a hat and choose one piece at random.
   
   
5. Once you've selected your option of editing, CREATE YOUR MASTERPIECE!! Depending on which option you choose, your result can vary from one single photograph to a series of photographs. It just all depends on how much time you want to spend on the project. In addition, it's up to you on how many photos to use! You can use all of them or only your favorite ones, but try and select at least one from each time period of the day. This way you'll have at least one photo from the morning, afternoon, night, or anything in between rather than only having a series of photos from the morning. HAVE FUN!

Here are all of the photos I took:

My end result...