For my Freestyle Collage No. 34, my theme is dark angels. Protectors or hindrances? Two sides of an issue fighting for control exist in all situations. It matters from which point of view you are leaning toward. One side will always tend to strangle the other in order to prevail. In the middle often sit the innocent victims. Which voice is the loudest or which tactic will prevail in the end?
In creating my freestyle theme, I borrowed from a previous LMAC Contest image to serve as the landscape.
In preparing my theme, I wanted to highlight two of my pure fractals I created in Apophysis, the fractal rendering software. What can I say about this first pure fractal. I was amazed at the outcome. Using the variation Julia 3D and "blob", the final image resembled pages from a book or sheets of paper swirling. The empty space in the middle served as the perfect feature to insert a face or object.
My next pure fractal is an amazing image that served as the city background. Portions of the fractal were white that resembled buildings. I rendered this fractal transparent so that it could be paired with other images. However, when placed on a black background, you can see the full details. Having this fractal serve as the middle portion of my scene left room for the bottom landscape portion. This would be filled by the LMAC contest image mentioned above.
Below are the additional images I included to complete my theme. For the female faces, I located two images from free sources. The first female image I used in the foreground. The second image I only required the hands to the cheek and the distorted face in the background.
As usual, images from the LMAC database, LIL, contributed by members were helpful in completing my scene.
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Ceramic face with back hair gothic posture PxFuel
Woman face cracked at PxFuel
Rain drops by OpenClipart-Vectors at Pixabay
Half moon Contributed to the #LIL by @redheadpei
Utilizing my upgraded Annual Pro Membership Subscription at Canva, I was able to upload all the images, then blend them to create the scene.
Here are my steps to creating my scene from left to right:
Added city fractal and landscape contest image to blank canvas.
Added both female faces.
Added pages fractal as head cover, then positioned chosen female face.
Duplicated city and landscape to fill in scene.
Decide which face for foreground and added deer from contest image.
Added remaining images.
Below is my completed freestyle collage.
Thanks for your visit. I hope you liked my freestyle collage theme.
CONTEST RULES
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
| What is Let's Make a Collage? | It is a weekly photography and collage contest. |
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| Who created the contest? | @shaka is the contest owner. |
| What type of contest is it? | This Contest utilizes a single photo provided by the contest owner as the basis for you to create your own photo collage by adding to the photo provided. |
| What are the rules? | 1. Use as your starting point for your collage the photography provided by the contest owner. It is located on the contest owner's post for free use without any copyright protection. |
| 2. Entries are required to be posted to the LMAC community and must contain a link to the contest post. | |
| 3. Entries need to set the LMAC account (@lmac) as 20% beneficiary to be eligible for the dynamic component of the prize pool.; | |
| 4. Extra support with the LMAC trail to all collages where LIL assets have been included AND the respective LIL-contributors set as 2% beneficiaries; | |
| 5. By submitting your contribution you agree that your artwork remains public domain and that it can be copied, modified and distributed, even for commercial purposes, without requiring further permission. | |
| 6. Any graphical element that is added to the photography either needs to be your own original work (e.g. own artwork or photography) OR needs to derive from sites whitelisted by LMAC. | |
| 7. IMPORTANT: Indicate the source of all materials used in your accompanying post. Otherwise your entry can NOT be put up for the final vote. | |
| 8. All sort of editing, modification and/or manipulation is allowed as long as no copyright is affected. | |
| What do you win? | Prizes listed on the contest owner's post. |
SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/
