Collaborative Effort

Today’s image is a little different than anything I have ever done before. It is my first collaborative effort. Djae Outlaw X (@djaeoutlaw) has made several of his images available for anyone to use (please remember to give credit where credit is due). Simply go to his website (www.djaeoutlaw.com/freeforall), scroll through the images, and choose whichever one you wish to edit. The photos are spectacular on their own but it can be fun to take something and turn it into something completely different.

I chose the image of the person holding a yellow umbrella in the middle of a field.  I love the large expanse of sky and had a very specific idea of what I wanted to do with it. The first thing I do is take the image into VSCO Cam. It has some preset colour/black and white combinations. For this image, I choose colour set 6. It adds a lightness to the sky. Other than this, I close out of the app.

 

Next, I open the image in LensLight. This is one of my favourite apps when applying sun effects. If you scroll through my gallery, you will see many examples of its use. Originally, I wanted to add the Rain effect. Unfortunately, it looks fake no matter how I adjust Brightness and Image Visible. 

 

Abandoning that idea, I move on to something else. I play around with other sun effects and settle on Sun Beam with the “sun” located directly over the umbrella. The reason, it leaves a sun trail down to the umbrella. The image is now taking on a bit of a sci fi feel.  Now I know for sure where I want the image to go and it’s actually different than my original idea.

 

Next App I open, is Picfx. I scroll through directly to the Space set. After trying out a bunch of different looks, I settle on the Nebula sky effect.  I play with the intensity until I am happy with the look. Time to save!

At this point, I am pretty happy with the image and am read to upload to Instagram.