Conceptual Self-Portrait

For my conceptual self-portrait, I wanted to portray something that really represents me. The concept I decided on was to show that no matter how annoying these people can be, they still mean the world to me. In my picture, you can see the 7 people I love the most doing very outrageous and annoying things to me. You can also see the look of annoyance on my face. But even with how annoying these people can get, I still love them with all of my heart and I need them in my own little universe.

I was able to portray this by a lot of editing in Photoshop. First of all I found a picture of a galaxy and cropped it to become an 8x10 and changed the resolution to be higher. I then took all of the pictures of me and my loved ones and magnetic lasso them out of their original picture and put it into the galaxy. The pictures of the people I love the most I resized and positioned them so they fit in my picture proportionately. For some of the pictures, like the one of my sister hanging from my hair, I had to use the clone stamp tool to get it to look more realistic.

Done