Magazine Covers

I really liked these NBA magazine covers. The first one has an older look. Its the season preview poster and the color is just right. With the NBA log being the only color other than the brown and black. It made it pop and tie the whole poster together. The italian one was a lot more fun and colorful compared to the first one. With a black and white spiral. Also the guy jumping attracted your attention more. It gave it a lot more life and energy, but I saw the unique side to both the covers and liked them both.

Surrealism

This picture took my a very long time to get everything right. First I had to take all the images. I put Eli floating in the background upside down. I used the lighten option on him so he would blend in. I blurred the whole background for a unrealistic weird effect. Dealing with the reflection of the window was really hard. I had to paint and fix the light stand. I also added cards around Eli floating and made them white.

Surrealism is a movement in art and literature that boomed in the early twentieth century. Surrealism aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control. Salvador Dali was an influential surrealist painter; Jean Cocteau was a master of surrealist film.

Examples

Salvador Dali

Igor Morski 

The image on the right is obviously the after and the one on the right is the before. I used a really cool new paintbrush I downloaded and used to give it the different boarder. I changed it to a darker bluish grey make it a cyanotype.

The image on the top is the before and the bottom is the after.I used a different brush i hadn’t used yet. I liked how it held the picture in this web like border. I changed it to a darker bluish grey make it a cyanotype.

Image on the left is the edited and the image on the right is the original. I gave this one a different tint cause I thought it would look cool as a daguerreotype. The border smooths out the corners and burns up in the bottom. It gives it an older look.

This one is my Gum Bichromate the first image is the original, the other to are the edited. This one was the hardest for me to make because the editing process was confusing and had lots of steps. I had to make all these different colors and then add a vector mask on each  of the channels. Then I painted them on and it looked okay. So I added tons of blending options till I got an image that looked really different and looked cartoon like. I flattened the image and fixed the overall brightness, exposure, gamma correction, and offset.

This one is my first Gum Bichromate. I decided to use one of my cyanotypes just to see what would happen. I had to make different color layers and then add a black vector mask on each  of the channels. Then I painted them on and it looked okay. So I added a few of blending options till I got an image that looked really different and weird.

Lastly my most complicated daguerreotype This one took lots of layers of rust and an old background of a canvas with lots of brownish tones. I took a picture of Paolo and mixed it with the rust, changed the opacity and, made it even. Then added the canvas. Flattened the image and it was done. The first time I messed up people's face and it looked really weird, after I redid it I looked better.