vervet
I haven't used the extrude filter before and wasn't sure what original photo to use. After playing around with a few, I settled on this little vervet monkey and as I played with various filters I ended up with this. I have been dealing a lot lately with teenagers going through lots of angst and emotional problems and this seemed to illustrate how they are feeling and acting. All hot with hormones and rage but with their humanity shining through their eyes. If we can get through these years there is hope! Anyway, that is how I saw it and how my little vervet illustrates it for me.
Workflow;
Extrude filter on the whole image; masked out face then cropped to a square image so that the filter was slightly off centre and unbalanced; Nik color efex infrared thermal filter; extrude at a higher value; remasked out the eyes back to the original then added a slight burnt sienna filter over the eyes to add a little less passivity.
Another interesting theme … made me think! :o
