Beyond Blue

Beyond Blue

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"A screenshot I took after playing around with the new Photo Mode feature of the game. Used almost every menu in it. After the angle was different at first I decided to make it look like the whale is descending with Mirai, rather than swimming horizontally. Then I began playing around with contrast and other settings, stripping out of color the entire image. After I somehow achieved this fractured state, I was capable of coloring the image using the hue menu, and since it's fractured when using hue instead one color I get shades of a couple of colors in one shot. I first had the flashlight removed, but then added it because it would expose more details on the model of the whale, and also added the snow back and put the light on UV mode so it is more softer and painted in the hue color of choice. Then I used the distortion lens to distort a little bit the model and make it look more out of this world. I was going to name it "Out of this world", but changed the name to "Impact", because especially the colors remind me of what would an impact look like for our swimming friends. The water won't be blue anymore, but it would be highlighted in redish colors as the impact looks like it's slowly burning away every single drop of water, also reminding me of our neglect towards nature, and how it "impacts" other life forms and ecosystems. The distortion of "the beak" of the whale turned out perfect because it would in those circumstances highlight mutation, innevitable for the plastic poisoned oceans.
But maybe the first thing that came to mind was how beautiful the contrast between colors is, and almost makes it look like you're not swimming underwater, but like you're gliding on the surface of a planet, in open space."