December 19

Fencing

For the past 7 months, I have been fencing at a club called The Fencers Club. It is the oldest fencing academy in the USA. I fence a sword called Epee. Ruby Wexler also fences epee with the same coach but she has been fencing for a year and a few months so she is at a higher level than me. Io fences at the same club but she fences a different sword so we don’t fence together very often. It is kind of funny that I’m writing this today because I just broke my blade yesterday and I have to get it replaced.

December 4

My Photoshop Project

To make my poster I took a photo while riding on a ferry on the way back from the beach. Then I masked out the water and replaced it with a photo of lava flowing down the side of a mountain and put it where the water used to be. Once I had replaced the water I took a photo of a person paddle boarding on calm water and masked that out and put it on top of the lava. I made sure to include the shadow to make the person more realistic. After all that was done I added smoke on top so that it looked like the person was paddle boarding on the side of subterranean volcano. I think that the shadows reallt make it look real because the sun is setting so if they weren’t there it would kind of kill the vibe.