Double Exposure

"Blissfully Blue, Thinking of You"

For this picture I wanted to have a sort of serene yet melancholy feeling.

I used the same pictures of the trees twice, but they are flipped opposite ways and one is more faded in the background. I didn't mess with the color too much on the trees and clouds because I like the way the picture looked naturally when I took it while the sun was rising, I think that is where I get the feeling of serenity. The picture of me was first edited to black and white. I then used a blend mode to give it the bluish hue which brings in the melancholy feel, paired with a layer mask to make it slightly transparent. I named the final product "Blissfully Blue, Thinking of You" because the picture as a whole reminds me of a feeling that I sometimes get when I think of old memories. The feeling is when I remember a happy and calm time in my life that I miss. So the memories make me feel calm, yet sad that they won't happen again. I really love this picture because it has a lot of meaning to me and I think sometimes in this class we just rush to get things done and forget what photography is really all about.

"Absorbed" 

This picture I think really speaks for itself. First I took a picture of my classmate texting and made a selection of just her so I didn't have the wall and such in the background. I then typed the sentences, "We. Aren't. Seeing. The. World. We. Are. Absorbed. We. Are. Not. Living. We. Are. Not. Experiencing." and repeated them over and over and over again and took a picture of it to make the background. I added the text to the inside of the selection and used a layer mask to allow my classmates face to show through a bit. I also used the layer mask to show the phone because you couldn't exactly tell it was a phone with just the silhouette. For the last part of the picture I filled the background with black and faded the silhouette into the black background so it didn't look so soft. This picture is about how today, we are all obsessed with our phone, social media and etc. We text, tweet, instagram and snapchat about the world and beautiful pictures of it but we are never really experiencing it anymore because we are too busy texting, tweeting, instagraming and snapchatting about it! And the worst part is that nobody seems to care anymore, because we are ABSORBED