Craft:
First, I selected a picture from lincoln's era of Abraham Lincoln sitting down in a chair. Then i got a picture that i took of my friend Mary . I opened both pictures in photoshop. Then i created a new picture with the dimensions of a regular U.S. letter. I copy and pasted the Lincoln picture into this new picture. Using the transform-scale option i held down shift and expanded the picture to take up the whole page. Then i used the lasso marquee tool to cut around my friends face in order to make it a layer in the picture of Abraham Lincoln. Also, i used the rotate and scale tool again to adjust my friends face to fit on Abraham Lincoln's head perfectly. Then by erasing some of the new layer of my friends face i was able to blend the hair line and beard on my friend's face. Finally, I adjusted the hue/saturation under adjustments for my friends face so that both pictures would match in black in white. Also, brightness contrast helped the two images blend together.
Composition:
I orginally had the idea of putting Abraham Lincoln and two of his friends on the beach in Hawaii. When i began to mash up the picures i wasn't liknig the outcome, so i decided to put my friends face on Mary. At first i thought this wouldn't work out well and was doing it as a joke just to play around with photoshop, but the outcome was pretty good. I liked it so decided to take it seriously and work more indepth with it.
Concept:
Honestly my picture was really lacking a concept and i tried to think of simiarlites shared between Abraham Lincoln and my friend Mary. A few things came to mind, but getting this message across an audience with little knowledge of who Mary is seemed rather pointless. So i decided to rethink a whole new concept then build on the idea with pictures. My new concept is that if Abraham Lincoln was around today, i believe he'd be doing the same things. Such as being very poitical and professional with his entourage and also taking family pictures on vaction.
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