Hey, @barbarabezina.
I'm glad you said it was photo manipulation. It's so artistically done that I would have called it a painting. That makes the fact that the women seem to grow out of nothing that much more amazing. It's like they just suddenly come into being.
How long did this take you to do? I'm guessing you used photoshop. Do you have some preset colors or swatches that you use? I'm also wondering which filters you used.
Well done. Very deserving of the c-squared feature and upvotes.
Thank you!
I make digital art for 9 years (I have more than 1000 works). Since I was little I have drawn and painted so my digital works are a mixture of photography and painting. I use many things, in Photoshop yes. Each work is unique so I always do different things ... In a few hours (2, 3, 4, 5 .. depends) I do one work.
This year I have abandoned digital art a lot, to delve into analog photography which is what excites me most now.
It seems to me that much of what you would use in digital art can be used with the analog photography and manipulation right? Like the nine years of digital art has prepared you for your new love of analog photography. It's awesome how some life experience can be used and applied to another.
I can see your passion and love for it in the image above.
So, then, you have a film camera? What kind? And then you develop the film or lift the image straight from the negative?
Of course! Everything is fed back and mixed together and I like to do various artistic things and discover new ones. It's endless.
I have a Canon Ae-1, a Pentax Zx-M, an Olympus trip 35, a Certo-phot and some homemade pinhole boxes in which I use photographic paper. I develop my negatives (and paper in pinhole) at home and scan the negatives.