Time Composite

            When I began brainstorming for my photomontage, I originally had quite a few ideas. However, seeing as how I only had a week and a half to complete this project, all of those ideas were tossed. I began scouring through my phone for any local landscape/environment photos taken within the past two years. I’m not the sort of person to take photos on a daily or even weekly basis, so there was not much content to search through. I wanted to find a photo where I could go revisit the location and replicate the original. I ended up using what happend to be the oldest photo in my album. It was a picture of the Floyd Building’s parking during the fall of 2016. I asked one of my close friends to aid me in replicating the photo. I think I took over thirty photos in my attempt to replicate the perspective of the original. As an on the spot decision, I asked my friend if he could walk away and towards the camera while I took my photos. I wanted to incorporate another element of time, in conjunction with the environmental transition from summer to fall and dawn to noon. I noticed immediately that very few of my photos matched the perspective of the original. To combat this, I warped, cropped, and resized both the original and retakes to complement one another. The most difficult part of this process was trying to get the leaves on the trees have a smooth transition. I wanted to maintain a sense of realism and authenticity. If I were to go back and change anything about my project, I would try to improve the perspective of the right side to better match that of the left. To do this, I would most likely have to go back and take even more photos.