The main project for the first half of the semester is to take an historical photo and place yourself in it. That brought to mind the old Soviet habit of adding (or removing) people from official photos, which served as a point of departure for my search of a base photo. I found this one on the internet. The original (assuming it was not itself doctored), contains the armed man on the right and the JSU-152 in the left background, but not the character in the middle. Starting with a couple dozen photos in my makeshift studio and wearing various costumes that might look like something worn in 1956, I cut out the contemporary character and pasted him twice on the original. The top of the two layers has the Vivid Light blending mode applied and is mostly transparent. It gives the character's shadows darkness similar to that on the armed man. The layer underneath has a bit of Noise filtering applied to reduce the otherwise sharp detail. The gun muzzle was copied to a new layer and placed on top of the character, as was the forearm and gun strap. What the character from another time was saying is not recorded, though it may have been something like "the Russian's are coming, the Russian's are coming".
