OB_005_Exposure_Shift
Status
Status:: Finished
1. Operation data
Internal number: OB_005
Operational regime: Algorithmic Transformation
Source image: Photograph from life
Operational description:
In Photoshop, the exposure of the image is increased and decreased.
2. Tools and procedure
Tools / medium:
- Photoshop
- Camera photograph image
Script (2026-09 audit): Not applicable (operation performed in Photoshop, manual tool with no code export).
Technical procedure:
- Increase and decrease exposure
3. Variables
Controlled variables:
- Exposure
Uncontrolled / accidental variables:
4. Visual sequence
Initial image
Step 01
Step 02
Step 03
Step 04
Step 05
Step 06
Step 07
Step 08
Step 09
5. Visual selection
Crisis / threshold according to AI-assisted reading / ChatGPT
Crisis / threshold according to my perception
6. Crisis and formal-perceptual reading
Crisis:
The operation affects the visual grammar of the image: shape, outline, color, figure/ground relationship, legibility, recognition, and support.
The shape is maintained, but it creates passages at the moment of underexposing; that is, the outline and the relationship with the background mix and fuse together. Recognition is lost in that sense because the image darkens and the outlines are lost to define the image, or they are overexposed and the outlines are lost there too.
7. Final evaluation and artistic reference
Does this operation truly put the image into crisis or does it only function as an aesthetic effect?:
Yes, the operation puts the image into crisis.
Operation notes / what I learned:
It is a simple operation but of great utility since chiaroscuros like those of Rembrandt and Caravaggio are created, which help to control the image and give it volume. The richness of the crisis is high despite the simplicity of the operation.
Final_status:
Works:: YES
How it destroys the image:
Works_on:: Aesthetic
Level and Richness of crisis:
Crisis:: Medium
Decision:
Selection:: Combinable / Save
Potential artistic reference
Reference:: Armando Reveron, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Potential works:
