Icelandic Week at the Bovine County Fairy Tale Festival seems to be causing multiple sightings of wee forest folk! Cousin Ron has hinted that we are not alone in Bovine County – but I am seeing more elves, fairies, and gnomes than terrestrial beings so far.
This is a visual assignment from the ds106 assignment bank. Multiply Yourself. I decided to multiply a Gnome named Boo (wonder if he is related or knows MamaBoo?) He is a playful guy popping out of the garden with a hearty laugh.
I had to set the scene. Set the camera on a tripod so it wouldn’t move and then place Boo in different places. Since he is a little stiff – I could only pose him at different angles of direction and depth from the camera.
After getting some shots, I uploaded to Photoshop and loaded them as a stack so that they all went into the same project file and at the same size.
From there it was selecting one as a base and then using the selection tools to cut Boo out and then cut the backgrounds placing him with the base photo in place. Since he is mostly in the foreground there was not as much detail in layering needed.
Another reason for choosing this assignment was to see how it might be useful in creating a fairy garden tour….still have that on my mind and bubbling.
I think I might teleport over to the Village and see if any of the forest folk have been in the gardens….
WELL! I didn’t know that Gnomes were so much there at the Burgeron Trailer. Now I understand better why they are on your TV. They are everywhere.
Plus, that Boo one seems to be able to do some kind of duplication trick and make clones. So I think they must be jamming up the airwaves or the cable or the Internet or whatever you have. So they are spilling over from the Trailer Park into The Village.
I will alert Rover.