In this assignment we worked on rhythm composites. We had to take multiple shots of a subject with the exact same background in each one, but the subject had to be in a different spot every time. After we took the photos we edited them and combined them all in to one to create the idea that the photo had repeated rhythm. How we did this was with using different selection tools and layer masks. First we would select the subject in one photo and create a layer mask with that. After we had the layer mask we would open up the "background" image and turn it in to a layer. Once it was turned in to a layer we would drag the layer mask of our selected subject over to the "background" image and arrange it accordingly to make it look realistic. If it didn't look too realistic, like maybe it was missing a shadow, we could use the burn tool to paint in a shadow to lessen the look of it "floating" on the image. After we had repeated that process with all our other shots of the subject we edited the photo using different adjustments to enhance it using tools previously learned.
This assignment I found to be sort of difficult. I thought it was hard to select the right amount of the subject for the layer mask including shadows and reflections if needed. When you didn't get the right areas selected it looked really unlrealistic so you had to use the burn tool to create the missing shadows. The difficult thing about the burn tool was that you would do that on the background layer to you couldn't blend it very well in to your subject. Once I got the hang of how to do it though, it went by really fast and quite easy actually.
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