Week 2 Part 1 : Filters Gone Wild

The assignment was to try artistic filters and "let go". I used a picture I took of a friend as a new avatar for his Facebook page ( standard 4 lights shot )

I tried randomly the filters and finally did the following: I made 3 copies of the image and applied 3 differents filters: mosaic on the background, chrome on the intermediate layer and reticulation on the top. I played with the parameters on the different layers and finally I used different blending mode to have the final result: luminosity for the second layer and color burn on the third.

so when you add the 3 level of randomness ( filter choice, parameters value and blending modes ) this is what you get: