Once someone asked me if I would open up my hate and let it flow into them. At the time I didn't know what they meant... that was before I was bit. Here is a picture of what happened next, and like a good little student, I saved my work.
To begin I made some test strips. For this image I used two negatives and one layer mask, here are those teststrips:
Using my potent mindgrapes, I quickly figured out the times needed for each component. This is what they look like, first the main negative:
As sexy as it obviously is, it reveals flaws. But they aren't as obvious until you see the other component.
So now that I had the proper exposure times, I needed to line up the two negatives. To do that all that's needed is a little trace action:
By using this guide I can line up two negatives on two enlargers. But unfortunately there are some errors. Can you see what is wrong? If you can't maybe you will when you see the sum of these two parts, which is:
Duh, as we all could see there was too much information masked! That white spot is way too distracting. Measures were taken:
So what I tried was to dirty up the offensive area, because life isn't fun unless it's a bit dirty, and photography is no different. In any case we need to know more, lets see how the whole thing looks:
Pretty stumpy, but on the right track. My right arm is not supposed to by cut off, and that white spot on my face is still a bit too much. Not to mention there just aren't enough guts! So more alterations were made and the final image came to be:
And there you have it, Zombie Stephen was born. Now this of course has been inspired by a few things. The first of which being based off one of my favorite songs ever, Zombie by Fela Kuti.
Sadly most people on earth don't believe in god, but you should all know that in a fool's heart doesn't believe in god. But luckily for us Fela is God. If you want a voyeuristic insight into my life I listen to this song every time I use an elliptical. I close my eyes and pretend that every cowbell is a lily pad, and I hop lily pad to lily pad, but each lily pad is really a metaphor for a galaxy and I imagine hopping galaxy to galaxy. Certainly a good way to spend 11 minutes.
Also this picture is inspired by the show The Walking Dead. I just watched the entire first season last week, and the second ep of the second season just dropped the other day. Watch this show, you'll like it unless you are dumb. If you happen to be dumb still try to watch it and see if you can understand what the zombies are saying.
