Family Portrait

Family Project Reflection

For this project, we were asked to create a family portrait project. The image I chose to start with is an old family photo that had most of my family members in the image back in Taiwan, it was an old image that was on display in our house back home, I chose this image because it has my grandparents in it, and they have passed away, I always liked the image because everyone in the picture looked so happy, it also represents the most important people in my life that are back home in Taiwan. Doing this project made me miss them a lot but it also made me really happy because they are my favorite people in the world.

When I think about family, I think about the family I have back in Taiwan and I also think about the family I have built here in America, so I knew I had to incorporate a photograph of my family here in California. Thus, I decided to combine both of the photographs and make it into a collage somehow, I tried making a photo collage but nothing looked right, then I thought of the idea professor Dibendetto brought up, the accordion photo collage, and I thought it would be a cool idea if I did something similar but through Photoshop, so I asked my sister who is back home to scan the family photo for me and send it over, then I brought it to Photoshop and turned the image into black and white then cut out stripes of the photo and deleted it, I then found a picture with my friends, girlfriend and sister in it and overlaid it in the back with color. I played around in photoshop and edited it a little so that both the images would stand out equally. Overall, this project was super fun to create and I hope you all like it!