photoshop is not cheating.

 

Photo by Felicia Simion

"Every time someone asks "How did you do this?" and a random person comes in and replies "Oh, it's just Photoshop", I feel like it screws up the whole meaning of digital photography. Photoshop is this amazingly supercreative tool which allows us to go far beyond the limits which reality and explore the infinite space of our imagination. It is NOT a human being who goes to a place, observes the nature, spots a good moment and presses the button. No. We, as photographers, do that. And Photoshop is our little tap on the shoulder. Our personal superpower. The way we connect our vision to the world.
It is not "just" Photoshop. The photograph must breathe by itself first. And then you get to nurture it." Felicia Simion

 I agree with what she had to say, this speaks for me as a fellow photographer.. What are your thoughts? 

TRI▲NGLES

I started off with this theme on Instagram. The wonderful @memhasagun put me under the triangles challenge and I enjoyed every second of it! I used my wacom tablet in the first two designs and ended the challenge playing around with magazine cut-outs.
Triangles are pure love <3
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Model used in #3 is a courtesy of  http://faestock.deviantart.com/

DIY | Collage your Moleskine notebook

Happy new year everyone!
So in an attempt to take the new year as a whole new opportunity, I wrote down some resolutions for this year.
One of them is to do more of what makes me happy.
I LOVE collages. So I decided to take the crafty route with it.
Here is a quick tutorial on how to make your own. 

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
- A plain Moleskine notebook.
- A scissor.
- A glue stick.
- A magazine or two.
- Any other scraps you find interesting
[ In my case, I used Mcdonald's paper-bag]

P.S. you can find Moleskine notebooks [here]

STEPS:
- Lay down the materials for your project.
- Pick a theme for the cover you'll create and start cutting out images you like from the magazine & scraps to match your theme, or you can have something completely random!

- Start shaping up your cut-outs and play around with the placement until you come to a result you like.
- Before you start sticking it with the glue, take a picture of your collage just for reference if things go wrong while gluing.

- Once you've finalized and glued your design, don't throw away any leftover cut-outs. They might come in handy for your next notebook or any other artsy project. ;)

Voila! My own DIY customized notebook cover. :D

Enjoy! And please share your results if you collage your moleskine!