Movement

Testing out my amazingly awesome Photoshop CS3 that I got for Christmas. This was done to fulfill the prompt "movement" for my Media Arts class. I tried to create this effect the traditional way, you know, by keeping the shutter open for like... ever and moving my hand around the frets.

First problem: when you move your hand, the guitar moves with you. Second problem: I was both the model and the photographer, which required much fiddling and cursing at the self-timer on my camera. So I decided that I could fake it in photoshop. I took five still shots of my hand fingering (oh ha ha ha -rolls eyes- perverts) different chords, cut them out of their respective pictures and messed with their opacity to make it seem like it was one hand moving around.

I love this photograph, it's like.. dude, wow, I finally have software that lets me do something like this in an hour rather than four.