Digitally Altered Photographs by Harold Greeney

Im just beginning to explore this medium, having grown up in the age of Atari and not that of mini-disks and whatnot. Im still exploring methods and what sorts of things I enjoy, but here are a few of my early ones.

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I pretty much just darkened the hell out of this one, switched it to black and white, and blackend the background out. This is one of the few photographic modifications which actually resulted in something very similar to my traditional chalk drawings.

 

 

 

 

 

Digitally altered photograph entitled "Fading Rio.

(Yanayacu, Ecuador 2006)

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Obviously, I started from one of the pictures on the photo page. I played back and forth with increasing contrast and darkening it until the image was nearly gone. Then I went in and aded areas of black slectively until I liked the composition. I really enjoy these sorts of minimalistic respresentations. Just making them teaches you alot about what is it, exactly, that makes what you se recognizable for what it is.

 

 

Digitally altered photograph entitled "Fractal sippin"

(Yanayacu, Ecuador, 2006)

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Don't really know what got into me here. Especially with my deviation from black and white. (and to pastels no less!). I kinda liked it though. Again, this is an alteration of one of my photographs.

 

Digitally altered photograph entitled "Lapwing permutation"

(Yanayacu, Ecuador, 2006)

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After the pastels I couldn't resist heading onto to the earthy tones I enjoy more. I really like the way this one turned out, and it evolved itself during about 4 hours of color shifting and cropping and minor additions, from "Lapwing permutations."

 

Digitally altered photograph entitled "Moon Rocks"

(Yanayacu, Ecuador, 2006)

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Like some of the other pieces Im working on, this one just sort of happened. I like the insect form, barely recognizable as if a strong light source were hitting it, crawling onto the page. Kind of creepy.

 

Digitally altered photograph entitled "Passing"

(Yanayacu, Ecuador, 2006)

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I had fun with this one, taking "Fading Rio" and sort of painting in colors with broad stokes. Once again looking for a minimalist view of a butterfly and adding color for fun.

 

Digitally altered photograph entitled "Paint Drops"

(Yanayacu, Ecuador, 2006)

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Taken from a crop of one of my photographs, I darkened and extended contrast significantly, switching to black and white. Then I played with the color balance and went in and added white areas of highlight. I let my original feelings about the photograph, and the mechanical feeling it gave me lead me down the path of making the grasshoppers even more robotic.

 

Digitally altered photograph entitled "Blue Steel"

(Yanayacu, Ecuador, 2006)

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