Manipulation Art

One of my favorite photoshop pasttimes is to manipulate a relatively simple photo in a variety of different ways, usually changing the composition. After seeing some paintings in Fundació Gulbenkian in Lisbon along the same lines, I obtained some panaoramic photo paper to make some prints.

The first result is below, encoded in PDF.

(272K PDF)

I took a digital photo, without flash, of a jellyfish floating in a tank at the Barcelona Aquarium. I then manipulated it by (respectively, top left to right):

normalising the (very noisy) blue channel
giving an overall gain to the red channel
offsetting R, G, and B in relation to one another
keeping the normal color and cloning little "traces" of the small objects to the right
rotating (part of) the image, and then placing multicolored clones in other orientations
removing the "B" channel of the L*a*b image
looking at only the noisy blue channel
eliminating the black channel of the CMYK image