![What’s an Aesthetic? – 2 20150508-_IGP3543 AutoC Fd](http://m5.paperblog.com/i/121/1216192/whats-an-aesthetic-2-L-FYQ_Xt.jpeg)
Here’s three variations. Obviously I’m not trying to make these look like something your eye might have seen at the spot. I’m just playing around with the additive primary colors: red, green and blue.
![What’s an Aesthetic? – 2 20150508-_IGP3543 AutoC Vvd R](http://m5.paperblog.com/i/121/1216192/whats-an-aesthetic-2-L-QAV2qM.jpeg)
![What’s an Aesthetic? – 2 20150508-_IGP3543 AutoC Vvd G](http://m5.paperblog.com/i/121/1216192/whats-an-aesthetic-2-L-dPEomp.jpeg)
![What’s an Aesthetic? – 2 20150508-_IGP3543 AutoC Vvd B](http://m5.paperblog.com/i/121/1216192/whats-an-aesthetic-2-L-0VaT2o.jpeg)
Here I simply “inverted” the first image (swapping the original colors for their complements), which is easy to do in photoshop:
![What’s an Aesthetic? – 2 20150508-_IGP3543 AutoC Vvd Vrt Eq](http://m5.paperblog.com/i/121/1216192/whats-an-aesthetic-2-L-P4oEpQ.jpeg)
That too has its interest.
But this is something else, and rather more interesting, no?
![What’s an Aesthetic? – 2 20150508-_IGP3543shaz](http://m5.paperblog.com/i/121/1216192/whats-an-aesthetic-2-L-v1faqA.jpeg)
Photoshop has a number of distortion filters. To get this image I used one called Twirl: Imagine the image floating on the surface of a pond. Now dip a stick in the pond and twirl it. I took the twirled version and blended it with the original, which is also easy to do in Photoshop. There are in fact endless ways to do it. So many I don’t remember just which one I used to get this one. I might not be able to reproduce it from the original.
Is that a feature or a bug?
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Many of the posts tagged “photography” raise similar issues.