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  • Essay / Analysis: The Vitruvian Man - 1079

    I didn't need to recruit anyone to take the photo thanks to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3's ability to take photos using a voice command. I needed two photos to make the replica. For the first photo, I propped up the camera and used the front camera. I positioned myself far enough away that I could fit my whole body with my arms outstretched into the image. When I reached this position, I raised both of my hands directly to both sides of my body while rotating my left leg so that the inside of my foot was shown. Looking closer at the photo, I saw that I had to put my thumbs in the middle of each hand and also bend the index finger of my right hand slightly. I then continued with my second photo which was much more difficult. Since the second photo had to be a photo of my limbs that could fit within the circle of the artwork, I had to take this photo from an angle. To do this, I used an envelope holder to get a forty-five degree angle and laid a forty-five degree wooden board on the opposite side of the camera. This time I had to take several photos in order to get the arm angles right. After that, I proceeded to download Gimp in order to modify the images. Since the angles weren't good for two of my limbs, I had to cut them out and superimpose them behind my first photo in order to get a decent representation of the image. After