Gray Olson
Formation or Disintegration?
This is a composite of three images, though there are only two dominant ones and the third is just used as a bit of filler in the bottom right. I took a high key portrait of my friend Bryson and layered it in several ways with a photo of ink dropped in water. I was set up outside with a white poster background and "injected" blue and yellow ink into the water which creates a really cool billowy and stringy effect. To composite it I used a layer mask based on the silhouette of the portrait and then layered the portrait with a multiply and screen layer to bring back some of the features in his face and shirt, feathering it out in the back.
Color can be emphasized over the subject by making the subject more ambiguous and/or less unique. In this case I made the subject more ambiguous by using the cool shape and texture created by the ink and water.
Non-Traditional Digital Photography
9.52 x 15.92in @ 240dpi
Formation or Disintegration?
This is a composite of three images, though there are only two dominant ones and the third is just used as a bit of filler in the bottom right. I took a high key portrait of my friend Bryson and layered it in several ways with a photo of ink dropped in water. I was set up outside with a white poster background and "injected" blue and yellow ink into the water which creates a really cool billowy and stringy effect. To composite it I used a layer mask based on the silhouette of the portrait and then layered the portrait with a multiply and screen layer to bring back some of the features in his face and shirt, feathering it out in the back.
Color can be emphasized over the subject by making the subject more ambiguous and/or less unique. In this case I made the subject more ambiguous by using the cool shape and texture created by the ink and water.
Non-Traditional Digital Photography
9.52 x 15.92in @ 240dpi