Thank you! Well I’m pretty new at the whole thing, photography is the base skill and I’ve been a hobbyist for awhile. I hadn’t had a nice camera, like a DSLR in 5 years or better, but I got a late model iPhone and I started messing with the settings before a shot. Then I started planning for certain times and lightings before going somewhere. As the pictures got better I started editing them, just messing around to see what all the different dials did. I realized i could make them look pretty neat. Then as we got a MacBook I started bouncing things back and forth between the iPhone editor and the MacBook, saving the layers as I went (sometimes lol). I haven’t been able to get the celestial photography very great on my iPhone, I need to get out into the mountains close by me and give it a better go, but I edit in the backgrounds/skyline, at least on these 3 photos. I just searched for one that kind of matched my exposure and the blue tones really blended well. I edit these in entirely with my fingers on my iPhone, hyperzoomed in. I use Snapseed, that’s the name of the app.
it’s funny you mention Van Gogh, I toyed with the idea of using starry night, but I scrapped it. I would say alongside him, I love Alex grey’s work, Banksy, Andy Warhol, Gaudi the architect, Victorian and gothic architecture, Roman and Greek architecture, renaissance art in general. I’m very new at this though, I’m not even sure if what I do is 100% kosher as far as my backgrounds being another persons photography. Never a whole image, and never ever stealing their theme, or using their work as the focus, just to highlight my own, and always tastefully, I hope. I’ve never been to church tripping, but I was forced through childhood in a devoutly catholic home.
