Media Arts and Technology

I took photos from WWII, 9/11, planes crashes, embassy bombings, and other scenes of destruction. These photos were layered, and mixed using various layer blending options in photoshops. Then various levels of blur and noise were applied. Finally the photos were flattened and final adjustments (cont...

I used the scanner in the assignment as well, and focused more on the unique way it captures depth.
portrait 1
portrait 2
ink in a glass bowl of water

I love the idea of hinting at some sort of narrative, or creating a mystery, so that was my main goal with these images. I desaturated all the images, messed with the contrast and brightness, and tweaked the blur and noise filters (using different types of both) till I got a desired effect. Sometime...

I've collaged dozens of photographs of a building. The photographs make up a map of the multiple facades. In the first image, all photographs are set to 30% opacity. In the second image, all images are 100% opacity, and blend together through using the "lighten" layer blending option. building5.png ...

I used 9 images of car crashes for my project. I used various layer blending options to achieve different effects, and eventually found desaturating the image to be appealing to me. I think fiddled with the curves, and brightness and contrast.

Changes made:
Adjusted curve
Adjusted brightness and contrast
Raised the saturation
straightened out horizon line

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