This is a new technique I just learnt from a YouTube tutorial. It is an easy technique to learn and develop. Paul added the wind effect onto the outer splatters to make it look as if the pieces were flying off of me. I used this photograph because it was an easy photograph to manipulate. I tried to splatter both sides of me but I didn't think it looked right so I decided to stick to one side to make it look more effective. I think I might have splatter my face too much, I think it would have looked better if there were less splatters all over my face. Paul had an idea of making this technique into an animation by doing each splatter separately. This could work but it would take a lot of time and effort. If this technique relates to my exam question in anyway, I would like to use it because it's easy and quick enough to do now I know how to do it. I think it shows a sense of surrealism because it could be something in a dream sequence or an unconscious thought which makes it surreal.
This is another photograph I edited with the paint splatter technique. I did not use the wind effect on this photograph because I think it looks better without it in this particular photograph. I only did a part of the model's hand and guitar so I didn't over do it and to make the focus on the neck of the guitar. I did not take the guitar photograph in the studio with the red background but hopefully it looks like it. I used the same tutorial technique which really helped me to understand masks and using different layers to create an illusion such as this. I really like this technique and would like to use it even more in future shoots as a surrealism technique and a experimental technique.
