Down the Rabbit Hole

I choose this photo for my line project as the element effectively leads the viewer through the trees and towards the silhouette of the falling/floating girl. I think the contrast of the black ground skyline and the near white of the sky also leads the viewer to the girl in the photo. To create this photo I took my friend Anna to Cool Creak park to lay on a stool (which I may or may not have stolen from my kitchen...) I would take several photos with her laying across the stool and then I would ask her to leave, I would take pictures of the same background without her in it for editing. I unfortunately forgot a tripod, so I instead I just stacked the photos in photoshop and took out the stool in one layer to show just the background in the second photo to make it look like she was floating. After several edits to the trees to declutter them I flipped the photo to further add a sense of surrealism and improve the use of space in the photo. I really liked how the falling effect turned out in this photo, but I do wish I would've tried moving her around into different "floating" positions.

Done