Wednesday, April 13, 2011

|{ Selfie Saturday- Magic Tricks }|

First of all, I am SUPER proud of myself because not only did I DO this challenge but I also did on MONDAY instead of putting it off until last minute! Yay!!

I don't really know what made me think of the photo I wanted to take, it just sort of popped into my head I guess.  I wanted to do levitation but I wanted it to have a story behind, a reason, so the one that came into my head first?!??! Alien abduction!! I think it turned out pretty cool, I am still trying to figure out if that is people think of when they first see or not, but that's okay if they don't.  I made some mistakes in editing, but for my first try I don't think it's too bad and I learned a lot just getting down and dirty and doing it! :)

So, here is my final product!! :) **Click to see full size! **


I posted this on Facebook and got tons of 'How did you do that?!?!' questions so I thought I would actually show you my steps into how I did this one.

It's all about layers!!

First I started off with my background:



Then I had to make all the floating objects:  





Then I wanted to make it even more dramatic so I grabbed my fan to make the curtains blow:



And last but not least.. me! It took me a while to figure out how I was going to do it.  I knew I had to find something to hold me up, so I grabbed some rolled up sleeping bags at first. I originally was going to wear some fairly tight pajama looking clothes so that it wouldn't look weird when I laid on the sleeping bags, however, the sleeping bags did not get the height I wanted.  I went looking for something else and found a couple of folding chairs.  It was perfect.  So I put on a flowy dress (too bad I didn't have the perfect white nightgown) since I now had the space between the two chairs to let it fall.  It was SO HARD to try to stay balanced on a couple of chairs sitting on my mattress AND try to take the picture AND make it look like I wasn't falling off the chairs. Haha.  But I did get a few good shots.  



Then I put them all together and did all the rest of my edits, like making it look more like night, changing the clock from 7 to 1, and adding a more obvious light coming through the window.  Ta-da!! 

It was a really fun challenge! I had a blast doing it!

I am so glad the weather is warming up because I really want to do next week's Jump Shot outside! 

  

14 comments:

  1. WOW! Seriously GREAT Magic Trick... really wonderful and thought out! I'm trying to think of magic, still catching up, but your pics are inspiring!

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  2. Hell yeah!
    Believe it or not, that's exatly the shot I was going to do. I still might do, since I've been meaning to do one for a while.
    You did amazing! I love all the floating objects. Great job, Shalay!

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  3. THIS IS SO COOL! WOW! Awesome job!!!

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  4. FANTASTIC JOB- I really struggled with this one! Your shot is IMPRESSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  5. That's awesome!!!! You did a great job!

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  6. Wow! You really put in a lot of effort for this and it turned out fantastically! Great job!

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  7. This is pretty awesome!!! So creative. it looks like a scene out of paranormal activity of something.

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  8. This is FREAKING AWESOME!!!! I have been inspired, and given some time... I WILL come up with something "magic" to do. You always inspire me .:)

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  9. Awesome! I really love what you've done - it's really effective and cool

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  10. Awesome job! Thanks for your steps!

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  11. That turned out awesome - I don't know if you saw my attempt at a similar shot but I failed. You totally rocked it and now I can't wait to try it again. Love it!

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  12. AWESOME!! Nice job! Thanks for sharing the process too, maybe I will give it a go!

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