Alex Acevedo
Eloquent Altered Photos
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BY ALEX ACEVEDO
Photographer, Designer, Musician
Colorado, USA
Alex Acevedo combines his eye for photography with a collection of apps that help transform his images into a more expressive body of work.
When I see something that interests me I try to break down all the different components and re-create it. Mistakes are okay, since without them we couldn’t improve.
Retro TVs
I came across these old TVs so I used the apps “CameraBag” and “Mill Colour” to create the vintage look of photography when these TVs were new. First I ran it through “CameraBag” using the 1962 setting and then I adjusted it in “Mill Colour” with the 1970s filter to get the sepia tone.
Big Red
Longest door I’ve ever seen. I took the picture into “PhotoCurves” and adjusted the RGB curves to give it that cross-processing look. I finished the image in “Mill Colour” with the Promo filter to make the colors pop.
Blind Eyes
Some great light from the rising sun came through my blinds. I blended that photo with a self-portrait in the app “DXP”, using the Soft Light setting, and then adjusted the contrast with curves in “PhotoCurves”.
Arbol De Fuego
Sometimes I walk my dog before the sun comes up and this one time I found the sunrise hitting these trees. It looked so beautiful. I used “Snapseed” to intensify the sunlight to look as if the branches were on fire.
Waiting for Christmas
My wife was counting the days till we went to Miami to see our family for Christmas. I tried to communicate that with this double exposure I created in “DXP”. Then I took it into “Snapseed” to adjust the colors.
Stop and Shoot
I opened the photo in “Mill Colour” and applied the Promo filter to increase the contrast and create the cyan tint.
Night Swirls
The photo was taken at night and swirled during the exposure. With the long shutter exposure in dark lighting conditions, the iPhone allows you to write with light. I then saturated the colors using “PhotoCurves”.
Tanning by the Pool
I’ve always been a fan of Lomography™ cameras. This was my attempt at replicating that. We blend two photos in “DXP” and use “PhotoCurves” to give it the cross-processed look.
