oh mang!

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Mang...like, that is a wicked cool pic mang?

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i like the idea but next time don't use filters. the effort it takes to do it by hand will show and it will be a lot more authentic.

text undermines the image. try a black matte with the text on that. ala' motivational posters. haha.

doesn't really look like cubism either. if you are going for cubist aesthetics then try colour-sampling parts of the image and layering boxes/shapes on top of that. apply gradients as a layer style on the boxes to give em depth and that painter like quality.

also to be honest, i think since it is a nighttime/darker shot, the filter is picking up colour from the noise in the image. try a lower iso next time maybe. i could be completely wrong on that one though.

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It really wasn't an attempt to be cubism, but rather just look at elements of cubism and try to reappropriate them. Your suggestion is an idea worth pursuing though.

I'm not sure where your seeing noise...the blacks are pretty solid black. You may be mistaking the city lights in the background being affected by the manipulation for noise. As for the usage of a filter, I think attempting to alter the light in the background by hand would have looked far more artificial. All the effect was meant to do was to obscure the background and maybe echo the natural pattern created by the broken mirror. Although I could see masking out some more of the effect on the figure itself...

Thanks for tearing it apart! Hah.

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yeah, background isn't really important...

the reason i thought i saw noise is because in the greens of the subject (on the sweater or whatever) there are red & off green colours. i figured it was because the ISO you shot at in such a dark environment was creating colour noise. maybe not though. haha i didn't think the lights were noise hahahaahaha

doing the cubism by hand on the subject is absolutely essential because a big part of cubism is the play on perspective/angles that you can only really get with gradient(ed?) squares.

right now i can see it in more of a stiple/stained glass type of effect. it doesn't mirror the mirror. hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

yeah, reason i was so interested in this is because my homie ana was in the photo class at SBCC and had to do one of these, so i helped her on it.

which reminds me... here is something cool she did for that class

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heheh

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