In Critique 3, Extended Seeing I found endless possibilities and combinations to create "Extended seeing". For my chosen POW I took two photos that I shot- one being a close up self portrait of myself, and another being a vertical panoramic of garbage. Originally I was going to upload the panoramic alone, but felt that it was not really that interesting to look at. So instead, I combined it with a boring self portrait that I took and created a more intriguing photo, by combining two.
I took both these photos using my iPhone 5c that runs on ios 7. I edited both these images in the application "Afterlight" by adding a Fade filter, and enhancing the brightness. Then to achieve the double exposure effect I downloaded the application "InstaBlend". The application tells you to first choose a background, and I chose the image with the garbage and shrub. After that you are supposed to input a foreground image, and I chose my self portrait. After uploading both photos I increased the "Blender" and decreased the contrast which produced the final photo on the right. This application was extremely easy to use and was actually free. I suggest messing around with it to see what you can come up with!
I wanted to create an image where at first glance it is hard to tell exactly what the viewer is looking at. I think I achieved "extended vision" by choosing to doing double exposure, and not just having shooting in one medium. By splitting two photos into one, a medium of unseen serendipity. I was able to go back in time and place myself into an area that I no longer am it. I think there is both beauty and chaos in this overlay photo that I created. I wanted the background to look like a thought, or memory, that I was reliving. I had a great deal of phone doing Extended Seeing and am looking forward to continue to use the tools that I have thus learned to create more intriguing photos.
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