Improving a photograph for social networking

in GEMS2 years ago (edited)

Hello People!

I'd like you to take a look at this edition I did recently. Since I have permission from the model to document these edits I created.

edit-aesthetic-cute-angels666sat.jpg

She needed help to achieve something more eye-catching. And she hired me to do it.

This edit is inspired by a very popular trend called aesthteic and all the subgenres that compose it. So let's talk a little bit about aesthteic, since I also wanted to understand it and there are no such explanations of aesthteic, since it is a somewhat recent visual trend.

Aesthtetic also means aesthetic, it doesn't change its meaning, but I think that this appropriation tries to use the prefix A as a resignification of the opposite: Without - aesthetic or lacking aesthetics.

Since in its beginnings that can be traced from tmblr post or beyond and obviously inspired by visual representation movements like waporvave, Japanese minimalism and Vintage.

Would come a trend that would impress young internet users, in which everyone would practically participate, and eventually would generate a huge amount of interesting subgenres. Between complex editions, a particular way of taking pictures, or interventions of pop culture elements.

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Several of the common elements they had at the beginning were desaturated blacks, out-of-focus shots, exaggerated grain, poorly lit, all in an aesthetic sense. Perhaps in response to the super images that represented the world of show business, or eventually Instagram where most show the best part of their lives, this trend was born to counteract, but like any counterculture, ironically you can find aesthetics styles that are born of overproduction to emulate this trend, which would come to become its own genre.

And that's where my sources of references came from: with these in my head I started to manipulate the image.

Main reference

Selfies pa que tus stories revienten en reacciones.jpg

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  • First, I cropped and removed some details from the photo, to eliminate excesses that were in the photo.

  • I gave it a color treatment and fixed some details in the image so they wouldn't get in the way, and blurred the background a bit, so it wouldn't steal unnecessary attention.

  • I applied a stroke to the character to further accentuate the silhouette of the subject, separating it a bit from the background.

  • And to draw attention to her face, I simulated a very faint flash effect to illuminate it.

Since this girl took the picture in front of a mirror, and there was a whole empty strip in the frame, I decided to fill it with something, so that the composition would not fall to one side. The element "失せろ", of the Japanese characters, stylized in that neon way evokes its usages in the waporvave, with some effects of the same layer I could give it that appearance.

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This word means "Get lost", thinking about the personality you wanted to convey with the image, as if she was a bad girl, being mean to you 😆.

I hope you enjoyed reading about this exercise and practice that I did, hopefully you learned something and took some reference with you.

I will continue to practice and document more edits I make for Angel666sat, you can find her on various networks with that username.

Thank you for reading!

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A nice work. Beatiful. Congrats, friend. Good day!

i do not know why, but this song reminded me of you

Nice... As i said, if it's hungry

u just wanna eat u,u

You can really see that there is a job here. The final result is great!

u think is good bro?, I really appreciate it!

Wow, sublime edition, the colorfull touch is amazing. @theycallmedan you should see this!! Cheers!

OH thanks for the support! <3

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Your photographic-plastic work is very suggestive, in a line of interesting pop aesthetics. I think you have achieved with the effects given to the photo of this pretty girl a good result. Regards, @not-here.

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I love this work a Lot !!!

thanks man! <3