Narcissist

A study in self-love.

I put this as a manipulation because I feel I did a shitload of work outside pasting and piecing...moreso than I could have done with a double exposure had I used film. Technically I just did a lot of cleaning up of edges, dodging, burning, some curves adjustment, brightness/contrast, things like that. Maybe if I had patience and time in a film circumstance I could have reproduced it, but its still manipulated, I feel. Not perfect but, enough to keep me busy at almost-one-AM.

I was going to leave the colors realistic, but added green for that touch-of-cliche-envy. Makes it a little more retro to me anywho, and I was going for that at-night-low-light feeling of washed-out color.

This is what happens when I have a cold, am stuck inside, and have a new camera.

Enjoy.