Charlotte Digital Compositing
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Night Prowler - Jessica Holler
For my concept I wanted to create a chaotic scene inspired by insanity and intrusive thoughts. The spiraling red background symbolizes a tangled and overwhelming mess of thoughts inside people’s heads. The overwhelming frustration from these pressures is pushing the subject to hysteria until they reach an eventual breaking point. The fragmented faces of the subject are blurred and morphed together, screaming and grabbing onto their throat, implying the subject is wildly throwing their head around in panic. Through distortion, movement, and color contrast I wanted my piece to be a reflection on how overwhelming emotions can distort perception or make you feel like you are losing control.
All of the components in my piece were original photos that I took at home. For the background I made light trails in a dark room with a phone flashlight, then recolored them and overlapped multiple of them to create the busy effect that I wanted. I used my roommate as the subject and used a variety of blur filters and tools to blend the angles together.
Night Prowler - Jackson Wells
For my assignment I tried to find a strong contrast between my subject and the background. I wanted to have a distorted subject, as if he was being electrocuted. I took a few different takes, from different locations to get the final result.
Night Prowler -- George Stern
Night Prowler - Michelle Sobolewski
DreamEscape - Jacob Taylor
Night Prowler - Jordin Lopez
I started this edit with pictures of a office building in uptown. I was honestly very lucky that this building still had her lights on. From there, I inserted my own images as well as some images of pexel to create these moments of movement. I color corrected quite a bit of things as well as messing with perspective to get the angels on the windows right. One of the challenging things was getting pictures that would fit within these controlled spaces. Whereas, yes, I can manipulate any image into a spot if I really wanted to, but it would lack the organic feeling I was trying to achieve here.
pexel links:
https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-sitting-inside-a-bus-using-cellphones-8164001/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-sitting-in-a-subway-19086018/