Post by comicIDIOT on Oct 26, 2009 16:27:38 GMT -5
First and foremost, you'll have to excuse the orange bar at the top. I placed the bar there so I could add colour to the [Holy] Apple Menu Bar.
On to the image.
I took the initial photo in March of this year. I had accidentally over-exposed the photo to begin with. But what I got was a photo that so embodied who I am, it was one of the three images I kept and one of the two images I uploaded to the internet.
When I opened it Lightroom I didn't know what I wanted to do with the photo. It was already over-exposed and framed nicely. I ended up adjusting the frame so the ceiling corner wasn't in the shot and converting the photo to B&W. Later on down the processing I added green to the shadows & red to the highlights. The green pretty much stuck to my eyes and the red to my hair & face.
After opening this photo in photoshop today I upped the vibrancy, increased the exposure for the walls, some spots of my hair and added a truck load of brushes.
Despite all this work I'm not 100% fond of the result. The brushes seem like a random idea and have no correlation to the photograph beside the fact that it shares similar colours.
And why these colours and what do the provide the photograph with? Each colour has an emotion representation, Green represents envy and red represents love. To continue with a few other examples yellow is friendship, blue is calming. What the bring to the photograph is quite a bit, in my opinion. I'm watching with eyes of envy as my body burns of love, lust, passion.
The placement of brushes in the corner are a messy tangle of ideas and they too have envy at the core and as they reach out, also show a desire of love.
Sometime in November I hope to stage another photoshoot where I model. Not to give much away but it'll contain a better representation of mood via visual elements, contain a clearer story - as an individual photograph and as a photo-shopped piece - and it too, will be B&W.
On to the image.
I took the initial photo in March of this year. I had accidentally over-exposed the photo to begin with. But what I got was a photo that so embodied who I am, it was one of the three images I kept and one of the two images I uploaded to the internet.
When I opened it Lightroom I didn't know what I wanted to do with the photo. It was already over-exposed and framed nicely. I ended up adjusting the frame so the ceiling corner wasn't in the shot and converting the photo to B&W. Later on down the processing I added green to the shadows & red to the highlights. The green pretty much stuck to my eyes and the red to my hair & face.
After opening this photo in photoshop today I upped the vibrancy, increased the exposure for the walls, some spots of my hair and added a truck load of brushes.
Despite all this work I'm not 100% fond of the result. The brushes seem like a random idea and have no correlation to the photograph beside the fact that it shares similar colours.
And why these colours and what do the provide the photograph with? Each colour has an emotion representation, Green represents envy and red represents love. To continue with a few other examples yellow is friendship, blue is calming. What the bring to the photograph is quite a bit, in my opinion. I'm watching with eyes of envy as my body burns of love, lust, passion.
The placement of brushes in the corner are a messy tangle of ideas and they too have envy at the core and as they reach out, also show a desire of love.
Sometime in November I hope to stage another photoshoot where I model. Not to give much away but it'll contain a better representation of mood via visual elements, contain a clearer story - as an individual photograph and as a photo-shopped piece - and it too, will be B&W.
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