Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Project 9

When Pugs Fly
 (11 layers)
Flying Pug 1 (to left) -
Date Taken: 11/27/2011
Camera: FUJIFILM FinePix S2550HD
Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec.
F-Stop: f/4.8
ISO:64
Focal Length: 20.2mm
Tripod: no

Flying Pug 2 (to right) -
Date Taken: 11/27/2011
Camera: FUJIFILM FinePix S2550HD
Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec.
F-Stop: f/8
ISO: 64
Focal Length: 10.4mm
Tripod: no


When we were first introduced with the “fantasy” project, my mind was blank. I had
absolutely no idea what I was going to do. Once I began thinking about it, I initially
found myself exploring very broad ideas. I then pulled the ideas in closer, I began
thinking on a more personal level. At the heart of my family is our two pugs, Tate and
Suri. While many people dislike the look of pugs, we cannot get enough of them. It was
this love that started me on my project. Ever since I was little I have heard the saying,
“when pigs fly”. People constantly tend to associate pugs with pigs. Perhaps it is the
single letter that separates them, or perhaps is their curly tail and smashed in face.
Regardless, I felt I could create a modified saying that incorporated my two pugs, calling
it “when pugs fly”. To do this, I took a picture of each of my pugs. With Suri, the female,
this was no problem to capture a picture that looked like she was flying. This is because
she is very energetic. Tate was an entirely different story. To compensate for his
“laziness” I had my brother hold him in the air as if he was flying. Through Photoshop, I
cloned out his hands. The sky background was found online at
www.customity.com/content/wallpaper/blue-sky-and-clouds-and-hills-wallpaper. Once I opened this up in Photoshop, I pasted the cut out images of the pugs onto it. I resized and rotated each image separately to give it a “realistic” effect against the background. I then found two pairs of wings online. Suri’s wings were found at www.pxleyes.com/photoshop-picture/4aef38dd29d52/When-pigs-fly-html. Tate’s wings were found at chaddypants.blogspot.com/2011/08/chicken-hawk-story.html. With each pug, the wings were resized and rotated to fit. Initially, this was all I was going to do, but I felt the picture needed more. I began to look at pictures of pugs online and found the two other images shown in the picture. The falling pug was found at www.imagekind.com/Sophie-the-flying-Pug-art?IMID=85fffbef-bce3-466d-88ba-941d9706df0f. The skydiving pug was found at www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026921/Skydiving-dog-Otis-parachuting-pooch-loves-going-walkies-air.html. I placed the puppy falling from the sky and above it is the skydiving pug, flying to its rescue. Being as this was a modified version of the saying “when pigs fly”, I felt pigs should be incorporated. On the ground I placed two small pigs looking up into the sky at the flying pugs. These two images were found at kimsheridan.com/compassion_circle/links-resources/ and www.visualphotos.com/image/2x2687492/potbellied_pig_looking_up. I felt this added to the picture. Rather than them being the ones that fly, as they have always been shown, it is now the pugs that are flying. 

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