Perceptive Visualizations

This Thanksgiving break I got the opportunity to visit a few exhibitions. Two inspirations of mine, Warhol and Dali, were on display at a museum. At the Warhol museum, there was this contraption where you look through different shaped lenses, which skews the scene you are looking at. I took this picture and edited it to accentuate Warhol's intentions of a multi-dimensional world.  Where a magnified focal point attracts the eye, the outer layers act as a sort of buffer. I really appreciate this perceptive visualization and used some photoshop skills to highlight it: Saturation, exposure, offset, curves, levels and color balance.

Additionally, I took the initiative to create my own traditional art after being inspired by Warhol and Dali.  This is an acrylic painting of Salvador Dali that I did based off of a picture of him that I saw at the museum. Here it is!

My acrylic painting of Dali

Depiction of Dali at exhibition

Trident

A place I like to go to get my coffee fix while photoshopping or doing homework is Trident cafe on Pearl street.  My friend took this photo of me that includes my two favorite things: coffee and my Mac. I decided it would be the perfect photo to manipulate by introducing my artistic eye into the mix.  So I took a photo of an old dresser I painted, and composited some of that art onto the original photo. Photoshop has proved to be so inspiring--especially while trying to tie in some surrealism into this project.  With some adjustments in lighting, tone, hue, exposure and saturation I was able to create this fantastical photo. Enjoy!

Manipulated photo

Original Photo 1

Original Photo 2

An Infrared Autumn

Before all the leaves fall and we can't see past the sleet covering the lush grass, I decided to capture the beauty of Colorado in the most fantastical way that I could think of: an Infrared Canon camera. Images from infrared cameras tend to have a single color channel because the cameras generally use a sensor that does not distinguish different wavelengths of infrared radiation. What this basically means is that the infrared filter is removed from the camera, which requires you to capture a photo in sunlight in order for the infrared effect to work. It was a sunny day and I began my adventure in my front yard. I got some awesome pictures of my neighbor's cat before heading to Chitaqua.  At the end of the day, I composed a series of composited photos that depict my surrealistic day. It was a success. 

 Desaturation, Levels

Exposure, Levels, Contrast 

 Curves, Levels, Saturation

 Offset, Contrast, Levels, Color Balance

 Gradient, Levels, Color Balance

 Contrast, Tone, Hue, Levels

 Saturation, Hue, Exposure

 Cloning, Cropping, Levels

Color Balance, Curves, Contrast

 Saturation, Hue, Levels

 Color Balance, Cropping, Curves

 Offset, Levels, Contrast

 Color Balance, Levels, Curves