
Lightbulb Photoshop Series
My idea for this series was to make viewers give a second look to these photos. The desired feeling I wanted to evoke from these photos was containment. The constrained holding of a place or object that is usually free and spread out should be contradicted within these photos. The idea that something beautiful, yet uncontainable, should be almost ironically viewed inside of these lightbulbs.
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The Process
I simply looked up as many lightbulbs as I could that had a somewhat neutral color background and were clear, and then tried to match the coloring and lighting from the lightbulb with an image that I could find online. I then traced just the glass part of the lightbulb, placed the image over it, and masked it within the glass. From there, I started playing around with the image effects, including color balance, vibrance, hue, saturation, and much more.