This is a photograph I took when my friend and I were going out for photo hunting in Samajaya Sarawak Forestry. I edited this one for my friend, since he wanted to put it for his facebook profile.
I like this one. Just another experiment with photographs. So I was inspired by my photographer fellow when composing these images. The idea is showing the photograph that the guy was taking. The flower image was desaturated to present it in B&W. Then, I restored the flower's and the leaf's color to emphasize more into the object. It was my consideration, but I don't know if it does emphasize the object, lol ^^.
While putting them into the black background, I was experimenting to make the picture looks prettier or more artistic (^^). After going through some trials and errors, then I came up with this. Trying to blend the guy's image with the background, I applied some 'Pixelate' filter onto it. Then, I duplicated the image and put the mirrored picture next to it. I applied a Gaussian Blur onto that and set the transparency lower to give a fading-out effect.
So, that's it! Oh yeah, photographs were taken by Nico. Thanks to him.
I was trying to make something like vector artwork, like those beautiful artwork we usually see in ads. So what I did was using the 'Threshold' feature and then filling in a solid color to the selection. I emphasized the details by using smaller Threshold value and filled that with darker color. I was thinking to make it looks catchier, so I added up a set of circles, just like a dart board.
Then... voila! Looks so plain ^^, and this definitely does not look as beautiful as those ads' artwork! Yeah, I just wanted to keep it so I posted this picture here.