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the last blog's cliffhanger picks up here: after that first critique, i just set out to take lots of different staged idea photos. these include a few locations in my house including the stairs and an enthused & cooperative roommate's bedroom. (her room is much more fun than mine.) eventually i wound up again in the photo studio (now i am teased when i asked for the keys, i've been in and out so much) staging hand shadow puppets.

that! now. by that point i'd hit upon something that had some legitimate potential. marty did some neat folding and proposed i try to combine the pillows/bed idea and the wall/shadows idea, and incorporate the lamps on the wall (because nobody sleeps with taplights, not even children) and so then came another thousand or so photographs on that theme, resulting in the following, that i offered today.

the sad story about those are how grainy and unfortunate they are. actually, the sad story is me & photography... we've had our troubles this semester in every class. but i am buying my own camera this christmas and i am going to tame it and we are going to get along great.

so with a gentler photoshopping, i dove back in with some zooming and cropping and lightening and brightening and leveling et cetera.

which brings us to the present.

(ta-da!) here is what i'm finally working with. it all comes down to a few days worth of tweaks, and then my semester of type 1 will be at a close. so strange. anyway, color correction and general cleaning-up: onward!