Hit me: Peace in Peices

[Vetteography]

This guy gave me a shot in exchange for a smoke. Seems to be a fair trade to me. Nice guy and a decent picture, I wanted to jazz it up a bit.

What do you think? (Looks even better in print than on the screen)

http://www.bastaards.org/Misc/Pictures/Disjointed_Peace2.jpg

[jfrancho]

I looks pretty good on my end. I bet it looks AWESOME printed.

[CappuccinoDavid]

did you get a model release from him? You maybe able to make money from this...

[Titus213]

Great image. His face looks like it has seen and done more than its fair share.

[Vetteography]

did you get a model release from him? You maybe able to make money from this...

Nope, no release. I may have to go track him down and offer him a pack of smokes to sign one ;)

[ChP]

Yeah, you should have gotten a release.

When you print it, do you print each fragment separate, frame them, and then hang them together? I think it would look really cool if each section was framed separately.

Awesome shot, and btw, how did you approach him about it. I really want to get confident about asking people.

[Vicki76]

GREAT picture. Go get that release. Can i just ask how you did the boxes for that pic?. I have tried that sort of thing before and it's turned out crap.

[Vetteography]

Yeah, you should have gotten a release.

When you print it, do you print each fragment separate, frame them, and then hang them together? I think it would look really cool if each section was framed separately.

Awesome shot, and btw, how did you approach him about it. I really want to get confident about asking people.

I printed it as a single image in a 4x6 to see how it looks. I think I am going to do an 8x10 for my "portfolio".

I was walking by, he asked for money. I told him I didn't have any cash on me (true) and when he asked for a cigarette, I offered to give him a cigarette if he let me take a picture of him. He was happy to do it....

[Vetteography]

GREAT picture. Go get that release. Can i just ask how you did the boxes for that pic?. I have tried that sort of thing before and it's turned out crap.

Just hit or miss as I have never done it before either.

I took the original picture, made a whole bunch of layers by copying small segments of the photo. Then I duplicated the image, deleted the background layer and started shuffling the small pieces around until they looked ok. I deleted the pieces I wasn't going to keep, did a stroke command on the inside of each segment that I did keep and made sure that the separation of the segments was even. Flattened the image and Voila!

[tim]

Nice shot, and a great effect! One thing you could try for portraits is to get your lens at about the middle of the subject, vertically, it gives a better perspective to some shots.

[PhotosGuy]

Good idea!

[Reflection]

It looks awesome, a great way of snazzing it up. I'm not sure how it would look, but you could try misaligning the different parts of it, making it a bit more crazy.

[Vetteography]

I printed an 8x10 and it came out awesome, definitely a keeper. Thanks for all the comments!

[sixshot]

Such a creative way to make an ok photo to an excellent one. Good work....Something else I need to try!!

[pdrow]

That is a great concept. You did a great job on it