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What will you do to my brain?

Spain

Oct, 2019

Views

1133

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+65

Awards

DJI Osmo

Contest Finalist in Creativity At Home Photo Contest

Contest Finalist in Manipulations Photo Contest

Outstanding Creativity

+15

Peer Award

+10

Absolute Masterpiece

Genius

Magnificent Capture

Superior Skill

Superb Composition

Virtuoso

Top Choice

All Star

Emotions

Impressed

Top Ranks

Top 30 rank

Top 20 rank week 1

Top 30 rank

Top 30 rank week 1

Top 20 rank

Top 20 rank week 1

Top 10 rank

Top 30 rank week 1

Top 30 rank

Top 20 rank week 1

Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken in the living room of my house. I moved a few pieces of furniture, placed a television on the floor and the rest was magic that I did thanks to the Photoshop app.

Time

It was 9 pm, I was leaving work after having been studying all morning. The truth is that I was very tired but this idea came to my mind on my way to home and I couldn't let it pass, as soon as I got home I took the picture.

Lighting

The lighting of this photo comes absolutely from the television screen. I put a white image on a pen drive and opened it on the television so that it illuminated me. The idea was to create a dramatic image in which the source of light was only the television screen. Simple!

Equipment

My usual camera a Canon 700D. The lens I used was a 35mm 2.0f fixed lens. I needed a lens luminous enough to capture an image in which the light was so poor since there is only one source of light.

Inspiration

I study audiovisual communication and that day in the theory of communication class we had given the Theory of the Hypodermic Needle. The truth is that this theory struck me a lot, the theory talks about as the media and its communicators use a series of arguments or slogans to capture our inner being and thus "manipulate" us in a simpler way usually with emotive arguments, is used a lot in TV media. This inspired me to take the picture.

Editing

Yes! In photoshop I distorted the television screen with the finger tool and a brush that I made. Then I made a series of masks and distorted my face and joined it with the television. Once I had my face linked to the television I added green, blue and red colors or the more well-known as RGB and I also distorted them to create that GLITCH effect. With those bases everything else was patience and drawing in photoshop. Finally I added a series of parameters to give that color tone that has the photograph, a mysterious and cyberpunk tone, playing with curves.

In my camera bag

Normally in my backpack I have 3 lenses, a 18-135mm 3.5f-5.0f canon, a 50mm 1.8f and a 35mm 2.0f. I also carry a small led torch in case I need extra lighting, color filters and batteries, a lot of batteries.

Feedback

In this type of photo manipulated photography I would say that the best advice is to soak up information, see a lot, read a lot and think a lot. This will increase our mental "library" and in this way we can create many great things. Of course, learning to use photoshop in a deeper way helps a lot ;) Think of the magicians, always surrounded by books and studying to perform their spells ... Photoshop is a wand and you need to learn how to use it.

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What will you do to my brain?

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