492 To Hell

Before

After

My original photograph is not of perfect quality, but I took it at the time because I found the situation of being a silent bus on a route I'd never taken quite spooky. I looked later at the photograph and realised that the viewer would have no connection to my feelings towards it. I wanted my edited image to portray darkness and unfamiliarity so that it would link back to the reason I took it and help the viewer to understand myself, aswell as the image more.

I used only 'tiltshift' on Snapseed to get the desired illusion and simply carried out the effect numerous times to get a blurry, darkened manipulation. I think this is my most successful abstract photograph of the summer because it portrays my emotion towards the image more than any other and has the most purpose behind it. The 'after' version is much more contrasted as it is dark to light inwards. This effect is often used in horror films so that the viewer feels scared or eery - which relates to my original intentions.