Hi everyone!
I hope everyone is doing well and keeping busy. I myself have recently joined a group of photographers that meetup every month. My goal is to become inspired and most of all learn. So, I recently entered a photography contest that focused on fine art photography. The challenge was to create your own levitation photograph. I had never done this nor did it ever occur to me to do it. Challenge accepted! My first thought was that it would be great as my self-portrait challenge. My second thought, when the hell is the occurrence of levitation perfectly acceptable or expected? I could not simply take a photograph of myself levitating. I felt the thought to be incomplete. I had to create a story. I had to create a world where levitation would be expected, where levitation would be the only logic. So, this is the result. As far as the long hair, I have an incredible set of hair extensions. This was used to show motion and direction.
“It’s Time.”
Fine-art photography really is a challenge for me. It is completely out of my comfort zone. Yet, I am achieving my goal of being creative and becoming inspired. I do feel that I need to work more on my blending of different photographs. It was also extremely difficult for me to make sure that the different layers had the same hues, brightness, contrast, and color balance. This artwork is actually a composite of five different photographs. On another note, I discovered a really neat way of doing sun rays. I will post the link to the youtube video later.
Enjoy!
Aimee Michelle
Aimee Michelle Mercado Photography 