Reaching darkness

Normally at this time of the year I travel abroad for about 7 weeks. I always debate with myself the amount of photographic gear I should take with me. This time I ended having with me the iPad Pro and my camera with two lenses.

As you might have noticed I love doing composites and for doing so in the iPad, I needed something more robust. I was reaching darkness…I was diving into something I’d never done before as I am used with Photoshop and with my computer for editing. I started learning Affinity Photo for iPad.

I’ve struggled a bit as everyone does when starting something new. I’m starting to dominate it after watching several videos. I can do a proper selection now! ;-). My burning and dodging strategies for mobile will be via blend modes, overlay grey layers + brush. It is a powerful app I have to say! We can do a lot with it! It is almost as if working in PS and the UI is clever. I miss not being able to colour correct elements in composites as I normally do. I might still find a way in the app, if there is a way. And who knows one day I’ll be able to clip layers…it would be great! In comparison to PS mobile, it is much more robust for my understanding.

This is what I last created using Affinity. Oh by the way I’m getting addicted to ICM (Intentional camera movement)! I’ll be using a lot as my backgrounds 🙂

Intentional camera movement of a woman facing backwards with arm extended to darkness — Touching the unknown

Patricia dos Santos Paton Patricia dos Santos Paton is a digital artist based in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. Patricia is a passionate about human behaviour and is a soul seeker. Being born in a third world country, Brazil, she experienced seeing lots of social inequality and this may have influenced her work. She is always in search for truthful and profound feelings. Patricia is engulfed by the essence of real life but she loves the surreal, the mystical and the mystery of mind and consequently of life. Her work is a visual story book about real life or about the surreal.