Posted by Jason Fonceca on Feb 1, 2009 in Photo-Manipulation, Portfolio | 13 comments
It’s been a while since I’ve released a piece of artwork here on SpiritSentient, but I’ve made quite a few (some not posted because of privacy concerns), and I’ve been working hard on other projects (a post about that to come soon.) Regardless of all that, I just finished an awesome new work that I’m super-pleased with called "Yin?"
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Yin?
I’ve been working on this piece off and on for months. It features Tracy, a photographer/model whom I’ve been close with for many years. She took this photo of herself, and for the first time I’ve created a high-res artwork with her as the subject. I feel this piece embodies her energy wonderfully, and there are quite a few subtleties to it.
It has a native print size of 40inches x 13inches and took about 100-200mb per file for 6 prep files. On top of that, the main composition was a little over 1gb. In the end I got it down to 156 layers each at a resolution of approximately 16000pixels x 3800 pixels and working on the piece at such a size/resolution was fairly painstaking on my current machine (which is an amazing PC, courtesy of my friend Richard) and the process of creating this piece has showed me that I will have a QuadCore with 8gb of RAM sooner than later.
Even the 2 Cinema 4D renders I used in the background took ~8 hours to render, heh.
Yin? explores the themes of light+darkness, yin+yang, identity, and life paths. Even though I felt really excited while making it, my attention was often directed elsewhere [eg: my spyware removal manual] and I didn’t feel like obsessively pouring all my energy into one sitting, still I knew it would come together eventually.
Anyway, ‘immortalizing’ others through my art, feels great. I would love to hear comments / feedback / thoughts / feelings on it.
Thanks for looking,
Peace,
J.