Alecia

I decided for this that less is more and only used three of the ten images provided. The woman in white is obviously an old/antique photograph, so I decided to erase her eyes. In other cultures through out history, it is known that when somebody has passed away you put something special (gold, coins, etc) on their eyes for them to bring into the afterlife. When this photo was taken, the woman in white was alive, but not anymore. I decided to put the butterflies in her eyes to symbolize something beautiful, but also something that is full of life as she was when this was taken. I was also very inspired by the hand and the fact that it already looked as though it was ripping through the paper. The hand is ripping through the photograph, and the image is caught right before he wraps his hand around her and takes her away.

Jessica

Jacarlos

Nigil

Joel

The butterfly is shown descending the waterfall toward the viewer and as the descent progresses, becomes a part of the waterfall itself.

Joseph

Morgan

West Baltimore, a generally rough and depressing part of town, taken from the MARC commuter train between Baltimore and Washington DC. I love shooting from the moving train because I never know what I'm going to get. Trust me, there's a lot of junk, but this image was a pleasing surprise. Over a year riding this route several days a week and I never saw that boat until I took the photo! It's so dreamy and liminal and achingly strange.

Gretchen

Same submission, better resolution.

paul

I once wondered if the abstracted nudes that the modernists created such as Georges Braque, Juan Gris or Henri Matisse have painted became factually realized. This idea originating out of a self-portrait attempt done medically with my own body, where as my radiologist worried about my health advised me to work form other source materials in hopes I would not harm myself. I began employing abstracted figures "reclining nudes" repurposed thus bending and shearing of the figure, wondering if they existed in real life how might she appear. Some attempts started to reveal new impressions, which perhaps reflect more on the issues about life itself, then merely a figure then humanity began to creep through, especially within social constraints. Thus in full circle this is what they were probably after from the start while abstracting these models.

Photoshop in itself is like fine paint and sable brushes, a tool to be exercised with careful restraint as one would with a camera or canvas. Sure you can go hog wild with it, yet to gently manipulate and find the subtleties gets deep at a vibe such as Dylan might with a lyrical melody which always seems more interesting then louder empty heavy metal. Simply altering images without working out ideas, could get a work lost beyond its special effects ultimately sort of serving to denigrate the medium. All said it is a fun fantastic tool to play around with and for all to help break through the ethos with.

Paul

Long time listener, first time submitter.

I thought this turned out lovely, so I thought I'd send it along. My photoshop work is a bit atypical... Not sure whether if this fits the spirit of the contest, but it's just what I do.

www.DougGarrison.com

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Doug

title: One (the chosen one)

mike toh

I wanted to leave the photos as untouched as possible and merge the two photos.

Mana

Curiously, though Jeanne is immortalized in paintings as having an elongated face, in life she had wider features similar to those in the marble sculpture. So it seemed natural to connect the dots in the digital darkroom...

She looks oddly familiar.

John

Enchanted Forest

Dan

Dark Reflections

Dan

Forgotten memories.

Dan

Flying guitar

Dan

From the hands of gods

Dan

My submission uses three of the source images: The butterfly (many times), the leaves (recolored), and the sky. The sky forms the background of concentric circles. I first copied the image to make an up/down and left/right symmetrical version, then used a custom Processing script to map multiple copies of that image to concentric bands.

I also included an image of starfish and a few algorithmically generated trees made with ContextFree.

The image is playing with symmetry and repetition: in the bands of the sky, in the repeated butterflies and leaves, and in the randomized fractal-like trees.

Mike