This is a really interesting triptych of one panorama with drastically different edits. They are oriented in the order that I edited them. Starting off with the bottom one where I added a gradient to get the mystical blue/doomsday clouds above the city. I then moved into inverting it, which gave it an extremely intriguing appearance. I really liked how in the middle panorama, some of the colors are still visible, especially over big pink. I then decided to mess around a bit more with it and made it black and white. Doing this really caught my eye. I like how there is a major contrast between the black of the water and sky and the white glow of the buildings. The contrast gives it the sense of separation, or how humans have destroyed the nature and made it into this city that towers over the land.
Both photos above are exactly the same, only that they were edited in completely different ways. They are both HDR, but the effects that I got attempting it were quite drastic. The first photo was done on my computer, where I wasn't able t get a proper HDR no matter what method I used to get it. But I got was this extremely bizarre over exposed monochrome image that was a blend of blue and white. It didn't really appeal to me at first, but after making some edits and turning everything red it began to remind me of some sort of Chinese propaganda art. Even though it's extremely pixilated and difficult decipher, this concept of turing a photo into potentially a form of propaganda really interested me. Now moving onto the second photo, what I had to do to get the HDR was email it to my friend Carlos where he was able to make it into a proper HDR. I also added a gradient to give it this doomsday effect, and added a texture in photoshop.
