This post is the results of a creative exercise based on the night sky. We've been having great weather here in Kodaikanal. We're at the start of summer but we've been keeping cool with light intermittent rain. The clouds have been making some amazing patterns as they dance across the sky. While heading down for dinner today, I happened to look up at the sky and was awestruck by what I saw. These days you don't need a DSLR to do night photography as a lot of smartphones come equipped with a manual photography mode that allowed me to precariously balance my phone against objects, keep the shutter open and capture the sky even though it was dark. The surreal patterns made me want to explore what could be done with some creative editing. Does anyone remember that song by the Alan Parsons Project that speaks of the eye in the sky? Some of my edits look liked irises so I thought I'd explore that theme and try creating some sky eyes.
These were the unedited photographs I took of the night sky. The colours look different because of different ISO and shutter speed settings.
I put these pictures through Mirror Lab and combined them with eyes that are used as a clipping mask on photographs I'd taken previously of clouds during the day.
I then explored what I could create with those sky eyes.
Apart from the sky eyes, I got a lot of great results from using Mirror Lab on the photographs. The nice thing about the app is that it lets anyone be creative on the go. Here are some of those images I made while waiting for dinner.
I've recently learnt about how to use creative common licenses on steemit and would like to make all the images in this post available under a CC-Share Alike license. This means anyone is free to use, distribute or modify all the images in this post, but any derivative work will also hold the same license. It's a beautiful way to promote collaboration and I'd be stoked to see the results if any talented artists here want to reuse these images in their art.
