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It's that time of year again. Christmas, Yule, Kwanza, pick your celebration!
The challenge will be to create a gift for someone you care about, a family member, a friend, a lover, a group, a cause, a pet, etc. There must be passion in the gifting.
What you might create is totally open to interpretation. Maybe you want to present your sweetie with tickets to a great warm location, so you create the scene with her/him holding the tickets and looking out the window and the landscape is Tahiti, snow on the window ledge. Maybe you want to present someone with a framed copy of a favorite manipulation or photograph, so you can show the scene, the image framed, maybe being pulled out of the gift wrap.
Maybe you're a supporter of an animal humane society and you want to send them a large check. The tv in the background has their commercial and you're sitting on the floor filling out the donation form, writing your pledge of ten thousand dollars. Right.
If you're a photographer, you may want to try out a trick which I think is in Camera Raw. You take a series of photos of someone moving across a scene and position them all together. I have never used it; I learned about it on lynda.com when I was using their tuts. It looked like a lot of fun to use. Imagine someone sitting on a bench and another (perhaps you) comes running up from the distance carrying a gift. You show the progression and finally the giving.
Anyway, use your imagination and be sure to throw in your passion for the gifting.
The challenge will be to create a gift for someone you care about, a family member, a friend, a lover, a group, a cause, a pet, etc. There must be passion in the gifting.
What you might create is totally open to interpretation. Maybe you want to present your sweetie with tickets to a great warm location, so you create the scene with her/him holding the tickets and looking out the window and the landscape is Tahiti, snow on the window ledge. Maybe you want to present someone with a framed copy of a favorite manipulation or photograph, so you can show the scene, the image framed, maybe being pulled out of the gift wrap.
Maybe you're a supporter of an animal humane society and you want to send them a large check. The tv in the background has their commercial and you're sitting on the floor filling out the donation form, writing your pledge of ten thousand dollars. Right.
If you're a photographer, you may want to try out a trick which I think is in Camera Raw. You take a series of photos of someone moving across a scene and position them all together. I have never used it; I learned about it on lynda.com when I was using their tuts. It looked like a lot of fun to use. Imagine someone sitting on a bench and another (perhaps you) comes running up from the distance carrying a gift. You show the progression and finally the giving.
Anyway, use your imagination and be sure to throw in your passion for the gifting.
