Wednesday, July 29, 2009

You Call It "Copying". I Call It "Flattery"

They say that imitation is a form of flattery, and I've imitated(or copied. But really, "imitated" sounds so much nicer) a couple of pictures just because I loved the way the original pictures looked. The first one I made was inspired by Demi Lovato's CD cover.



I wasn't even planning on imitating this picture. I was at my friend Tonya's house and she was pretending to sing into an old microphone. I was already taking pictures of her being silly, so I thought, "Why don't I just wrap her up in that mic cord like Skye Sweetnam does in "Tangled Up In Me"?" So I told Tonya to stand still for a second while I went around and around wrapping her up. She was getting slightly aggravated at me because I asked her to continue singing and dancing, except this time, while she was wrapped up in cord. She did as I asked though, and this is what I came up with.



Not as good as Demi's, it was still a neat idea for a picture and Tonya loved it. I actually wouldn't mind trying to redo that picture, this time with a guitar and maybe another microphone. I'll also take a better quality picture of Tonya the next time around.

Another time that I've "imitated" a picture is with this picture.



I found that picture on Facebook on one of those, "What Cute Love Quote Are You?" quiz things and I really liked how cute it was. Simple, yet artistic. I got my favorite pen and drew a heart onto my fingers. After about 30 something pictures, I finally found one that would work. Got it off of my camera, worked on it with PhotoImpact, and voilĂ !



Not bad, if I say so myself. I had messed up a little bit drawing the heart but now I like how it's not perfect.

I'd say that 97% of the time I make original pictures, but as I've just shown you, every so often I like to look for photoshopping ideas and then tweak them a bit to make them my own. Hopefully no one will mind and it'll be all fine and dandy. If it makes everyone feel better, I think it'd be really cool if someone were to imitate a picture of mine. =]

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