For this assignment we was to pick a meaningful topic and add ourselves in the image so it looks as though we were originally in the photo. The steps I took was to gather images from my topic, then take pictures of myself positioning them perfectly with the original images. The point of the project is to make it seem like the images you created were the real deal photos and making your viewers second guess or think you was part of the event, giving the meaning of Photographic Truth.
My book was based all around Malcolm X and events he spoke on to his death. To make myself look perfect in the photo, i change the emotions in my face to my body gestures. Every photo had to be alined to match the original photos. The tools I used as the Skew, the magic wand etc. Sense the photographs were gray I had to change photos gray also, so i used the Gray Scale.
I chose to make Malcolm X my theme because I felt he was an important person & idol. Fighting discrimination against him and fighting for what he believed in. Trying to get the Nation of Islam's words out. Also as a minister reaching out to people. Adding my photographs to the Malcolm X photos altered them in a of me observing and paying homage.
Something I learned from working on photographic truth is how position images to blend in with another. Making any old event seem like I was actually there. Out of all the projects Photographic Truth was one that interested me. It was a little difficult because trying to get my photograph to go perfect wasn't going well. I also didn't use my time wisely making it hard to work on it has much as i should of to get it right. What i'd do differently is basically everything from setting up my pictures to how I took them and placed them.
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