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Description
Color/contrast editing. Had to overlap a lot of pictures to get this to look right. It was especially difficult as I didn't have a conventional tripod to work with.
Location: A Dorm Room
Model: Myself

Entered in the Manip|Photo Contest by =geeny

And here's what the critics had to say:

"I know how dorm rooms are, they're not the most photographer-friendly things. He did a great job considering the space allowed. (...) It is what it is - a self portrait. But at the same time, it shows different facets of the same person, so it does have some meaning." ~claireskitten

"The Manipulation doesn't look as if ~Ernelson had used the frame with the original pictures, but combined them afterwards, so he must have planned it, because the setting of his hands fits quite well to the form of the frame.
He must have added the four selfportraits to the background picture seperately and for that cut them out first. What's visible of the cutouts is made clean and proper without blurry or chiselled outlines.
Then he had to fit the pictures into the frame what might have been a good amount of work.
The colours still look natural. So alltogether i think he's done a good job of the manipulation.

The picture leaves an odd impression to me. It shows the man as a passive watcher to the world, from somewhere else, at once fascinated, scared, disbelieving and somewhat upset(? difficult to say) of whatever he might see. But regardless of whatever he thinks of the outer world he's watching, he's always caught behind this window and so disabled to do something about what he sees.
It's not that i share this opinion, maybe i've even understood the true meaning wrong, but this is what i think of this picture. The fact that it made me think shows that it has a message and is not only some meaningless randomwork." ~CathleenParagon

"This is an interesting idea, and a lot of time has been spent to create it. The photos used fit together nicely." ~Fijay

Description
Color/contrast editing. Had to overlap a lot of pictures to get this to look right. It was especially difficult as I didn't have a conventional tripod to work with.
Location: A Dorm Room
Model: Myself

Entered in the Manip|Photo Contest by =geeny

And here's what the critics had to say:

"I know how dorm rooms are, they're not the most photographer-friendly things. He did a great job considering the space allowed. (...) It is what it is - a self portrait. But at the same time, it shows different facets of the same person, so it does have some meaning." ~claireskitten

"The Manipulation doesn't look as if ~Ernelson had used the frame with the original pictures, but combined them afterwards, so he must have planned it, because the setting of his hands fits quite well to the form of the frame.
He must have added the four selfportraits to the background picture seperately and for that cut them out first. What's visible of the cutouts is made clean and proper without blurry or chiselled outlines.
Then he had to fit the pictures into the frame what might have been a good amount of work.
The colours still look natural. So alltogether i think he's done a good job of the manipulation.

The picture leaves an odd impression to me. It shows the man as a passive watcher to the world, from somewhere else, at once fascinated, scared, disbelieving and somewhat upset(? difficult to say) of whatever he might see. But regardless of whatever he thinks of the outer world he's watching, he's always caught behind this window and so disabled to do something about what he sees.
It's not that i share this opinion, maybe i've even understood the true meaning wrong, but this is what i think of this picture. The fact that it made me think shows that it has a message and is not only some meaningless randomwork." ~CathleenParagon

"This is an interesting idea, and a lot of time has been spent to create it. The photos used fit together nicely." ~Fijay