Tajinder25’s Weblog

a) What were you trying to express and how did you achieve this?

The feeling that I was trying to express is loneliness. I chose this feeling because I wanted to relate it to students at West Humber. Some students here at West Humber don’t have any friends or students did have friends but something went wrong in there friendship and I was trying to penetrate that. I achieved this by taking a picture of myself and darkening it to give it the feeling of loneliness, or like making it stand out from the rest of the picture.  I chose words which describe loneliness and made them look like I was mouthing them out. So, that it looks like I’m very sad and I’m talking, or venting to myself.

b) What filters did you use and where?

I used the Plastic Wrap, Film Grain, and the Smudge Stick filters. The Plastic Wrap filter was used at the bottom to make the background snow look more real. The Film Grain was used at the top of the picture were the sky is. I used that because I didn’t want the sky to be so bright with colours which then that will take away from the feeling that I was trying to penetrate. Last but not least, I was using Smudge Stick on my face to make it appear like I was the main point of the picture. Also, I didn’t want my face features to show to specifically because then it would show to much emotion.

b) What layer blending mode did you use and where?

I used many layer blend modes around the lettering part. I used the lighten, soft lighten, darken just to name a few. I used it to make the breath look more real, so I had to make some parts light and some parts dark.

c) What special brush did you use and where?

I also used many special brushes to make the breath look more real. To name a few, I used brush numbers 55, 96, 100 and many different sizes to get the right effect.