This Digital Surrealism photograph is called “ Tallest Insanity”. It could be interpreted as a commentary of insanity or the range of emotions a person can feel at a time. What I did was I took a full body picture or myself and eight headshots of myself and uploaded on to the computer. Then I cut out my body and my heads out of the nine pictures that I took. All of the head shots had different emotions attached to them, one head was happy, one was sad etc. But two of the heads I actually altered was the evil head of me and the good head of me. The Evil head I changed the colour saturation of the picture to red, drew devil horns on my forehead then cut the head out of the picture all together. For good me, all I did was draw a yellow halo over my head. After all of that was done I used the smudge tool to make it look like all of the head were growing out of me. The background of the picture symbolized that everyone around the world is capable of feeling a whole range of emotion ranging from happy to angry.
I had 3 alternate versions of the same piece, each trying different ideas for an end result.On version(one I never used)was my head blend my head into a tree.Another version the heads growing out of me,that was probably one of my favorites. But ultimately as you can see I went with another alternate idea inspired by my teacher .My personal favorite was the devil head me because it stood out. With the other heads, I just repeated the same process over again. Filter, Extract. But with the devil head, I filter extracted it then I changed the colour balance to red then drew devil horns, done. It required me to do more than filter extract over again.
Personally I don’t think that the idea changed from when I last thought it up a few weeks ago. The overall vision of the finished product stayed true to the original to end. I’m particularly proud of how it turned out.
