Wilt
10/365, 10 January 2013
Project 365: Looking For The Lost Self
Being human and going through emotional upheaval can be so draining and tiring.
It’s well and good that we can use many things to distract us. Many of us don’t have the luxury of time to actually mend wounds. So we rush around putting on band aids because Time, as they say, waits for no man. What eventuates, whether consciously or unconsciously, is some form of cynicism, bitterness or repressed emotions of sorts. We either start drinking more than normal, or we do things that if we were thinking clearly, we wouldn’t do.
I don’t have the opportunity to escape in such a fashion. Time is, whether a curse or not, on my side. I, only have to deal with myself. It means that I am wholly unaccountable to no one but me for my healing.
Let me tell you, it sucks.
But I know that I have less of a chance of a crash and burn at some point down the road.
Edit Notes:
This piece took two days to complete.
All three images were taken in Procamera with iPhone 4S.
The base image (of an old mill door) was processed in Snapseed and Glaze (shared on Instagram last night); (1)
The image of the flowers was masked and merged onto a white background of 2500×2500 to maintain a large resolution canvas to work on.
The image of me was warped first in Photofx Ultra and then twisted in PS Express. This was masked and merged onto the floral image. (2)
In Image Blender, (2) was blended with (1) with masking and using Luminosity blend mode to give the grey-tones. This process was repeated again with (1) to maintain the integrity of the textures background. (3)
(3) was put in Glaze using a pre-mix that I had done which only gives a minimum painterly effect.
The final image was tweaked in Snapseed for structure details and ambience.
Wilt
10/365, 10 January 2013
Project 365: Looking For The Lost Self
Being human and going through emotional upheaval can be so draining and tiring.
It’s well and good that we can use many things to distract us. Many of us don’t have the luxury of time to actually mend wounds. So we rush around putting on band aids because Time, as they say, waits for no man. What eventuates, whether consciously or unconsciously, is some form of cynicism, bitterness or repressed emotions of sorts. We either start drinking more than normal, or we do things that if we were thinking clearly, we wouldn’t do.
I don’t have the opportunity to escape in such a fashion. Time is, whether a curse or not, on my side. I, only have to deal with myself. It means that I am wholly unaccountable to no one but me for my healing.
Let me tell you, it sucks.
But I know that I have less of a chance of a crash and burn at some point down the road.
Edit Notes:
This piece took two days to complete.
All three images were taken in Procamera with iPhone 4S.
The base image (of an old mill door) was processed in Snapseed and Glaze (shared on Instagram last night); (1)
The image of the flowers was masked and merged onto a white background of 2500×2500 to maintain a large resolution canvas to work on.
The image of me was warped first in Photofx Ultra and then twisted in PS Express. This was masked and merged onto the floral image. (2)
In Image Blender, (2) was blended with (1) with masking and using Luminosity blend mode to give the grey-tones. This process was repeated again with (1) to maintain the integrity of the textures background. (3)
(3) was put in Glaze using a pre-mix that I had done which only gives a minimum painterly effect.
The final image was tweaked in Snapseed for structure details and ambience.