Assignment #2 - Multiplicity

A word of advice for all teachers and professors... never denote which of the assignments you'll give is supposed to be the easiest one. It'll just make the students who struggle feel a whole lot worse about the future of the course.

That's a lot of Amys... Amies? I don't know what the proper plurality is supposed to be.

The task was simple enough: use quick mask and layer masking tools to create the illusion of having multiple of the same figure in one composition. That was simple enough; in fact, it was pretty easy working with the example photos in class, and I learned a lot about how to adjust the layer masks to make them fit in better (including a lesson on what the Dodge and Burn tools are supposed to be for! I've seen them for years on GIMP and had no clue what they did).

Unfortunately, when trying to perform the same task on my own set of photos, I quickly ran into issues due to one simple mistake: being put in charge of photography. I've know for years that I'm not very good at it, and that I have incredibly shaky hands, but I was expecting the use of a tripod to be enough of a failsafe to prevent that from seriously impeding my work. Unfortunately, it somehow wasn't, and I ended up having to do a LOT of editing to fit together various different perspectives of the area into one picture.

Ultimately, it led to a final product that I'm... not too particularly enthusiastic about, but should definitely be serviceable enough. It makes me wish that I got to finish my original photoshoot, as it had the least camera issues but only 10 photos to work with... and it also makes me hope that I won't have to use a camera again for the rest of the semester, as I can't say I'm thrilled at the prospect of struggling in more assignments because of it.

For fun, I ended up making a second multiplicity photo using my scrapped first set of pictures. Way easier to put together.