For my edited image, I decided to create a composite image of my three instruments: an acoustic guitar, a ukulele, and a kalimba. It wasn’t readily clear to me how I wanted to combine these three objects together into one photo, so I first experimented with double exposure so that the instruments would bleed into one another. This resulted in a muddled image, which lead me to return the instruments to 100% opacity, and stack them in front of each other in decreasing size.

My process involved establishing the guitar photograph as the background, and editing the properties of that image to correct the tonal aspects and colors of the guitar. I then removed the backgrounds of the ukulele and kalimba photographs and edited the two instruments in the same way as the guitar to bring out their distinct coloring, textures, and patterns. The three instruments were positioned in front of each other to create that illusion that would have been very difficult to execute in real life.

 

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Final Edited Photograph: