Put Yourself in History

The goal for this piece was to seamlessly insert myself into a photo from history. I selected this iconic photograph of Muhammed Ali and I put myself as a spectator among the photographers in the background using layer masks. I cropped the photo of myself and added a gradient filter to make it black and white and appear slightly aged. then I resized it and added myself into the background with the boxing ring in front of me. I chose to add myself as a spectator outside the ring because there were already some other people in the photo in that area, and I wanted to hide myself within the scene where it would be most natural. I wore clothing that was fitting for the age of the photo, and made sure that my size was in proportion with the other people around me in the scene.

This image was created as part of an Image Editing course using Adobe Photoshop.