My Photo Manipulation!

Manipulating photos has never been an addiction for me. I 
can count the few only times I’ve done that in my life and most of them were pretty much just cropping and pasting. This activity really increased in me the curiosity to keep changing and manipulating my photos.

The first two pictures I picked to make some changes are pictures from back home. I was really happy to pick pictures in which the weather was cloudy, with no energy; but with some touches in contrast, saturation, temperature and highlights, I could see again the beautiful sunny and “full of energy” city I grew up. What makes it even clearer now is the visible tanned skin, lighter sky, the beautiful green of the vegetation and the feeling of “hot temperature” the photo makes you believe it is. 

The second pictures I chose to make some changes ware the logo of the World Cup 2014 that will hold in Brazil. In this picture, in order to promote even more Brazil, all the colors that represent Brazil (according to its flag) are strongly represented in the logo and in a shiner way of view. Also, I found that an also good way to promote is making the name “Brazil” more visible, in a way that when you look the photography you will see this name many times and this will be in your mind for a while (and the strong colors also help in this process). When the world Cup happens, people will relate the event with the name Brazil and also with the colors yellow, blue, green and white.

The last manipulation I decided to make was a collage. Not only a simple one, but a collage using modified pictures, pictures that had already been changed with some effects in order to make them more attractive with less imperfection (saturation, highlights, black and white and contrast). I simply decided to put together pictures of people that are most important for me and also the most beautiful and important places I’ve been. It’s good (especially because I spent months always from them) to put them all together, in a way to make it easier to see all those who I love but I just can see once a year. And also a good tool to remember all those places I’ve already been and I felt in love with.

Next step I’m going to take regarding photo manipulation is going to be learning more about Photoshop and other programs like that. It is awesome how can certain more advanced programs can change people’s body and places. It is also possible to put in the same picture elements of two different pictures in a way that it’s almost impossible to point whether there was manipulation or not. Technology in fact just has helped to photography world and who knows what is going to be the next step!