Composite Image

This is my composite image from two weeks ago. I actually used one of my "interior" pictures as a background. This gave me some trouble because of quality issues depending on where I imported them from and stuff, oddly. I also had a hard time with the blending and I ended up using the eraser tool probably way more than I should have to keep the image intact. I think I know what I'm doing better now that we've learned more about blending photos in class, though, so hopefully the actual project will turn out better than this practice did. I did this silly thumbelina type thing because I thought the idea of dancing in front of flowers and stuff was cool. It's subtle, but there are actually a lot of elements from the wedding in the background of my interior picture - the maid of honor's bouquet, one of the bridesmaids, the gifts to the guests (tea, and the boxes imprinted with the date of the wedding), and the fancy silverware and such with evidence of the food smeared on it - that signifies the guests enjoying the event. The colors are all bright and almost surreally joyful, too, even though I didn't do any color enhancement. It reflects the tone of the whole thing pretty nicely, I think. That's what I'm trying for most in this project is conveying the sort of happy and lighthearted feeling that comes with something like this. What good is art if it can't evoke emotion in the viewer, right? ^_~ Ah, incidentally, I would like to make a note here that the wedding really did fall the weekend between the first and second classes and I did actually bring my camera with the intention of taking advantage of this opportune time for the human interaction shots for this class (my mom rolled her eyes at me when I mentioned that I probably wouldn't care about forgetting a camera if it wasn't an assignment). Just thought I'd mention that what with all the emphasis on not using photos not taken for this project.