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This Photographer Is Using Photoshop To Give Seriously Sick Children A Magical Christmas They Couldn’t Have
The Christmas Wish Project is a photography project unlike any other. Why? Because it transports seriously ill children from their hospital beds to magical winter wonderlands with Santa Claus.
Karen Alsop is the person behind this brilliant idea. She's a Melbourne, Australia-based photographer and digital artist, and she decided to give sick kids at Monash Children's Hospital in Melbourne a Christmas they'd never forget. She set up a temporary photo studio in an empty room of the hospital, and along with Santa's help she set about snapping her subjects in various imaged scenarios. Then putting their digital editing skills to work, Alsop and her team of Elves used Photoshop to create magical dream-like winter worlds for the children in her photographs. The project took 15 straight hours in total, and we're sure you'll agree that the final result was worth every second.
"I’ve always felt for the children...who are unable to leave the hospital during this season," she writes on her website. "I wanted to give them a gift that brings hope and I wanted to free them, at least in a creative sense...from the confines of the hospital ward and the reality of their situation. My main aim was to rekindle their faith of what the future holds for each of them."
More info: Karen Alsop | Facebook | Instagram (h/t: PetaPixel)
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Rylee 9 years ago
The child seems like he's too unhappy for this to comfort him. I'm wondering, did all of the kids agree to this? Did some of their parents make them do it?
DeadStillPretty 9 years ago
I may be able to provide some insight, as someone with a chronic illness. When you're sick, *very* sick, you tend to have "good days" and "bad days". So days where you're feeling okay. even good, and days where you're just feeling awful. So this boy, God bless him, may have agreed to do this photoshoot on a day he was feeling well, and thus was in a good mood. But, unfortunately, when the time came to actually DO the shoot, he was feeling lousy again, I.E., having a bad day. For me, I had a good day yesterday. Today, eh, not as much. Can't do much of anything but lay here and eat cake lol
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Sarah Lennie 9 years ago
Poor little man. Kids shouldn't be allowed to get sick, it's not fair :(
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Alissa Tipton 9 years ago
Wow, that’s a great piece of info you have here! Digital image retouching is not my strongest side. For some projects I have to draw thing but I have absolutely no time for finding my way through all the techniques possible. There is no way I can afford myself sitting glued to my laptop trying to do digital image editing myself. It’s not worth it, I’ll lose more. I always order digital photo editing services on fixthephoto.com or lavalu and it helps me a lot. Who could guess that low pricing can be equal good editing job. They really hit a home run there!
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Agata Gąsek 9 years ago
My little brother (4 years) died on the second day of christmas from cancer. My mother told me how she packed presents for him as he was dying and that was the saddest thing you could possibly think of. I've never met him since i was born after his death but this images are too sad for me.
Larry Perry 9 years ago
What a great idea..using Green Screen to help brighten the lives of these patients. Hope others get the same inspiration as did I from viewing these. Thank your for sharing.
Agata Gąsek 9 years ago
My little brother (4 years) died on the second day of christmas from cancer. My mother told me how she packed presents for him as he was dying and that was the saddest thing you could possibly think of. I've never met him since i was born after his death but this images are too sad for me.
Larry Perry 9 years ago
What a great idea..using Green Screen to help brighten the lives of these patients. Hope others get the same inspiration as did I from viewing these. Thank your for sharing.
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