Living Bohemia

ok, so maybe this is quite late, but i cant just let the month end without making an ode to my very dear friend who just turned 19 and rockin about a week ago.

this is a photo ode, so... you go figure.

on the photos:

i love freeze frames. i have been obsessing with editing the color channels of freeze frames, because somehow, if you neutralize the colors into a single prominent color channel, you bring out the monotonous beauty of a picture. or is it just me? the first one is in indigo channel. it's my first time to see a photo in that part of the spectrum, and it's nice. besides, indigo is one of my favorite colors.

the second one is a diffused glow version of this photo's yellow channel. i tried to put it in sepia tone but i think the reds in sepia destroys the "golden" theme of the picture... so...

the third one is my favorite. it's on dry brush filter after i reduced the red channel saturation of this photo. nice isnt it? or is it just me again?

on the model:

tin is a very good friend. i like doing tin's photos in photoshop because her face is not starkly angular, hehe, easy photo-editing, haha, but putting adobe aside, tin is one good human for real. i have always been inspired with the things she said, the movie moments, the practicality of her existence, the ghosts that haunt her (yes, they can be inspiring sometimes)... when you are with tin, there's never a dull moment.

well ok there are, but those are colorful dull moments. because somehow, tin knows how to put color in things that would simply be gray in my eyes. so you see, tin is bohemia. the color of an otherwise lifeless nothingness.

tin is a painting in midtones. no highlights yet, more on the shadows, but colorful nonetheless. take another look at the third photo. that's tin in full color as of now.

to tin, thank you for inspiring everyone. my wish for you is that you live long so you can live a life on the beach. joyeux anniversaire mon ami!

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