Ava Manley

So today I had to bare with my mum taking pictures of me looking up. She is terrible at taking pictures haha. I taken pictures of me looking us as I wanted to recreate my last edit with my own pictures.

So today I wanted to try editing pictures of someone looking up as I think it will look cool with the edits. I also wanted to do this because if someone is looking upwards its like they are looking for something else or looking upwards to god which is usually I sign of praying in some sort. I think if I add this in my work it will show a sense that there is more to life than social media and technology but at the minute if feels unbearable without. 

i started off with using an image of google just to have an idea of what i want my edit and picture to look like.  

I did this by making the image black and white and building up the contrast first. Then I separated the different colour layers pushing the red to the left and the blue to the right. After this i turn up the vibrancy and used the blurr tool to soften areas. lastly I went to the wave affect and made these tiny lines throughout the piece to a glitch.

After writing about some of my edits I wanted to change the eyes so they were lighter and I went ahead and did that. I selected the pupils and inverted it so they were light. I did this because I think the eyes leads you to someones soul and the fact I have took them away makes it look like your staring into nothingness. When i go out with my friends i know they are there but sometimes they are not there fully because there eyes are fixated on there screens, scrolling through social media. I wanted to create an image to show how addicted we are to social media and our phones that we are actually fading away from reality. I feel like this image is me all day, everyday, staying up late just scrolling through. 

Using the images I taken of my friends eyes I uploaded one to photoshop and started editing. Firstly I focused on making the image stand out by turning up the contrasts. I aimed to make the background black to make it seem as if the person is in a dark room and the only light is the screen that she is fixated on. i really like to mess around with the curves adjustment as I can make the eyes white and turn up the contrast. i like to make the eyes white as it make the girl look as if she has eyes but cannot see because she ids fixated on a screen.  After this I split up the colours into layers and nudge the red layer to the left and the blue layer to the right. After this I made the hole image black and white to then further repeat moving the red layer to the left and the blue layer to the right. This creates this faded glitch look. I like this look as it looks like she has faded away from reality from being fixated on the screen.