title:

Child of the Universe

gen. notes:

This is an image of a friend posing in a stance with arms outstretched while standing on a ridge several feet above me. The tree was superimposed from a shot with the sun shining through an upper limb.

photo edit notes:

The image of my friend was from a scanned black and white negative which I gave a slight Pantome Duotone to before reverting to RGB. The tree was from a color slide which was put on a layer above, since the sky background on the first image was almost completely saturated white, I was able to use threshold blending options to cut out the tree where not wanted with a little additional use of a paintbrush eraser. I added a circle with a transparent rainbow gradient on another layer.

source:

35mm SLR Color Slide, 35mm B & W negative

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keywords:

abstracts, artistic effects, people, image superimposition

comments:

The title is taken from the poem Desiderata: "You are a child of the Universe
no less than the trees and the stars
You have a right to be here"
I think the pose is also suggestive of Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.