Yikes! I need some sleep after this apocalypse! DO YOU SEE THOSE BAGS UNDER MY EYES!?!?
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Yikes! I need some sleep after this apocalypse! DO YOU SEE THOSE BAGS UNDER MY EYES!?!?
Below are the before and after pictures of surviving the apocalypse. It has been a rough journey trying to survive the apocalypse, but I did it.
The making of this post:
When deciding what I wanted to create for a before and after for the end, I thought it would be best if I used myself to show what it would look like if someone survived the apocalypse. This is what I think I would look like after, skin broken and discolored. This apocalypse would definitely be one that related to something nuclear or something with aliens. Since I did turn blue and my skin is not normal anymore. I used an app that had different filters where it added to your face, this one caught my eye! Definitely thought it’d be perfect for the apocalypse theme.
So… I made it!
I’m so glad to be alive. I can’t unsee the things I’ve seen. I’ll never forget the people I’ve met. It’s not over yet, though!
I haven’t run out of supplies yet, so here’s hoping I make it all the way through. Wherever and whenever the end really is!
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THIS POST:
For this assignment, I had to create a side-by-side comparison of a person, place, or thing before and after the apocalypse. I chose to use two pictures of me. I used a picture of me from a few weeks ago when my best friend did my make-up, and I felt beautiful! The picture on the right is me today. I am running on a lack of sleep, so that is one reason I look the way I do. I also wanted to make a facial expression that made me look tired, exhausted, and lost. I feel as though if the apocalypse were to come, this is what I would look like, at least after a couple of days. Whenever I look like this (no make-up, barely awake, etc.), I’ll call it my “apocalypse” look! Haha! However, my room is not green-ish colored, so I decided to add a filter to the picture to make it look like I’m in a dreary, dark world.
For this assignment, I wanted to use photos of my own but once I started to search the internet, I knew I had nothing that matched up to what I discovered. I chose two photos from a website called Amsterdam Redlight District Tours. These pictures were taken at a popular spot
For this assignment, I wanted to use photos of my own but once I started to search the internet, I knew I had nothing that matched up to what I discovered. I chose two photos from a website called Amsterdam Redlight District Tours. These pictures were taken at a popular spot which shows a before and after of if the
When the world is on the brick of destruction, everything and everyone is turned upside down and twisted inside out, nothing is quite the same anymore. It messes with your mind to the point that you no longer trust your own thoughts, because rules of the humanity has changed into a lawless anarchy. As these developments occur, the more primal and animalistic you become and your appearance slowly deteriorates, almost looking as if you are a zombie. This is my before and after pictures, to show the effects the apocalypse. My before picture I took in my room where there is good lighting and then edited to appear more presentable and my after picture I took later today after running from the infected in the woods.
This is link to see the full effect: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=da9cbb42-0f8c-11e8-b263-0edaf8f81e27
I found a mirror laying on the ground, half-buried in rubble. I picked it up and couldn’t believe how I looked. My whole life, I spent hundreds of dollars and countless hours on skincare, making sure my skin was as radiant and healthy as possible. I would put on makeup and loved to feel beautiful. Now, I have wrinkles. My eyes are so, so tired. My skin is burnt from the sun. Beauty has a much different meaning than it did then.
Beauty is going a day without hearing alarms and sirens warning us from the doom and calamity that lurks behind every corner. Beauty is eating something substantial. Beauty is finding patches of grass that still grow green and aren’t burnt from the radiation or ruined from the extreme weather.
I don’t recognize myself anymore. I’m not sure exactly how long it’s been since the end began, but I know I can no longer remember what it’s like to feel lotion on my freshly cleansed skin. The feeling of a face mask after a long day. Every day is a long day now. Every day is a struggle to stay alive and care for my loved ones.
I noticed effects of the stress happening on other people’s skin, but I never imagined it could happen to me after putting in so much time and effort to prevent it. I found a half-empty bottle of body lotion once but it just wasn’t the same. Not to mention, there were bits of debris that had gotten inside of the bottle. I figured it was best left alone.
Maybe one day, I’ll be able to treat myself again.
Hello everyone! My first assignment for this week was to take a before and after picture of a person, place, or thing that has survived the apocalypse. Being me, I decided to ignore the instruction to not rely on Photoshop. I believe that Photoshop is a valuable tool that demonstrates where the art of photography is headed.
Behind the Process
I started this assignment by downloading a photo of Monticello I took recently. I think Monticello is a good place to show it before and after the apocalypse as it evokes a lot of emotion. These emotions include patriotism (it is Thomas Jefferson’s house after all) and despair as the after photo demonstrates its abandonment. After downloading the photo, I brought it into Photoshop where I added the ivy, dead grass and trees. I think it was a challenge to find good images to insert. It was a challenge as these graphics had to be transparent and evoke an eerie feeling. I also played with the curves and vibrancy of the photo. This really made it set itself apart from the bright, happy Monticello in the before.
The difficult part of this assignment was working with the layers in Photoshop. I always struggle with duplicating them and making sure that they are in the right order. So, the hard part was dragging the layers around to make sure that things were arranged correctly.
Something I learned from this assignment was that when you place a graphic inside your image you need to rasterize it. I had no idea what rasterizing was. After a quick Google search, I came across this article that explained what rasterizing is. Rasterizing is when a Photoshop layer is converted from a vector layer to pixels. Vectors are great because they maintain clarity when you enlarge them, but pixels are needed to do *artsy* things. So I learned that in order to mess with the graphics I found, I need to convert them to pixels so I could edit them.
In this assignment, I found it easy to create a sense of place. Monticello is a place that most people are familiar with. Because of this, I think it was easy to turn it into an apocalyptic scene that is rooted in its past. Moreover, something I think I did well was adjusting the brightness and contrast of the after photo. Changing these via curves really rounded out the image and gave it a dark vibe.
One thing I want to improve was darkening the sky. I attempted to use the paint brush to do this, but it turned out sloppy. There were some areas of blue that I just could not get rid off no matter how hard I tried.
I chose this assignment because it allowed me to transform an image to be something completely different. I really enjoyed that aspect of this assignment as it allowed me to be creative in a different way than usual. This was a fun assignment, that if given a choice, I would definitely do again.
Well, that is it for now. I’ll catch you on the flipside folks.
So there I was prior to the apocalypse happy as could be in my nice warm cozy house. As you can see in my before picture on the left I was happy go lucky not a worry in the world. The infection started with a cough here, a cough there.
So there I was prior to the apocalypse happy as could be in my nice warm cozy house. As you can see in my before picture on the left I was happy go lucky not a worry in the world. The infection started with a cough here, a cough there. People started to turn and not for the good. People were attacking people eating their flesh, it was all I could do to get my family out. We left our recently purchased home and traveled up to York, Pennsylvania. My mom and her boyfriend lived there. He boyfriend had a assortment of guns and weapons, an armory. He had prepared for this for years and thank god he had. Five years had went by before we could make it back to our home after the zombie problem was solved. Our home had been ransacked by others who were foraging for food or shelter. It was a complete disaster but it was still ours, we could rebuild. The picture on the right is my after picture taken in the same house by the same door we had left 5 years before. You can see by my facial expression that I was in utter shock and suprise to how our house had ended up. You’ll have to excuse the greenish color we didn’t have electricity at this point and had to use glow sticks as our lighting.
So I chose this assignment as I figured it would be easy to make the picture apocalyptic in nature. I used microsoft word to manipulate these photos to merge them together. When reading about what juxtapose was on google it showed many photos that were merged together showing continuity between the pictures as a whole. The pictures looked as if they should naturally be fitted together. So after reading about this and finding out what juxtapose is this picture is my product of this.
