I’ve always loved taking photos, but I have limited knowledge on how to edit them. So for this assignment, I decided to challenge myself to find a creative way to manipulate a photo – or several photos – without purchasing expensive apps like Photoshop.
Recently, a friend of mine introduced me to an app called Huji Cam – a retro disposable camera photo app that adds red-hue filters to your photos as soon as you take a picture. These filters are completely random and you cannot choose or change them.
As an example to demonstrate what Huji does, I took the following 4 photos of my apartment keys. For comparison, I used my normal phone camera for the first one (left) and I took the other 3 using the Huji app. You can see that each of the photos have a different filter:
As I was playing around on the app and taking random photos, I got the idea to layer pictures together to see if I could come up with some kind of abstract art. I walked into the nearest hallway, and, standing at one end, I took a photo using Huji, took a step forward, took another photo, and repeated the process until I reached the end of the hallway.
This is the compilation of the 30 images that I used to create “Down the Hallway” —>
I then tested a few free photo layering apps that I found on the app store and came across Photoblend.
Using this app, I took the first 2 images that I shot in the hallway and blended it together. I then took the edited photo, and layered the 3rd photo on top of it. I repeated this process until all 30 photos were blended and layered together.
This was the final result:
For your reference, here are some iterations showing the evolution of the photo:
