Rock in hand
Is it a small pile of rocks. or is it a rather large hand?
This is my first foray into photo editing. I started with a photo I took in Joshua Tree when I visited there in November of 2011. I then took a picture of my hand holding a potato. Using Pixlr I mated the two together and there you have it!
It took a lot of erasing to crop out just the hand. Then I used the free transform tool to stretch and rotate the hand until it fit nicely on top of the boulder. I tweaked the color levels a bit, and used a touch of the Gaussian Blur on the background to match it a little better to the hand overlay. I would have liked to get a better lit pic of my hand (something in the sunshine), but the weather in Eugene on the first of February didn’t want to cooperate (shocking, I know). So there it is: A small pile of rocks, or a very large hand.
Hey there! Your creativity on this impresses me! I think it’s tight how you were able to manipulate and transform this photo into a real genuine piece of art!! The whole idea with holding the potato cracks me up. I always enjoy humor with art and I like really strange and weird things, so I believe you created something Badass!! Keep your creative juices flowing man, your going to succeed!!
Great idea of using the potato as the guide for your hand positioning. It’s always challenging to sync up your hand position to something it’s not actually holding. I will certainly remember this technique for other projects. You are right in that weather here isn’t the most friendly. My photography instructor, Dan Welton, once said that Oregon weather was a brightness setting we needed to learn. The adjustments you did indeed made it difficult to tell what the rock size was. Keep up the great work!
Good use of a potato. I wonder if the color of the potato affected the time it took to edit it out? nice to see a creative mind at work.
This is so cool!! You wouldnt know that the boulder isn’t huge if it weren’t for the hand! It looks like a cliff edge out in the dessert. Very creative. I would have no idea that was a potato either. It looks just like a rock…the color even matches. It could be a small scale set for a movie set.