Asphalt Mirageby
hokieComment by hokie: Thanks for all th comments folks.
A little about the photo.
Ever drive along th highway and see that heat blur rising off the pavement? As a kid we called that the Asphale Mirage and thus my name :-)
When I think of mirages I think desert/camels etc. so..I found a cool shot of a camel and a stock desert scene with a road in it and put them in photoshop and made a composite image. I knew in advance I needed a genreic blu sky so I leveld the composite to give me a dsert with a blue sky.
Then I took my compostie image and placed it in front of a mirror board that has texture to it so I got a mirror image that was slightly distorted. I then took that image into photoshop, gave it a slight water blur and printed onto photo card stock.
The idea of tearing the top of the art came to me on the drive to the location to shoot. I saw the clouds overhead and wanted to blend the photo into the real clouds. I tried to get some nice white edging to show on the card stock to give a cloud edge effect.
After gettng to my location ( a nice quite school parking lot ) I arranged my elements. The knife is an artist tool for cutting in straight lines to paintings. I figured some of the voters might not have painting experience and not know why I used a knife. Also the refldctive surface of the knife caught the clouds too!
I actually used more paint than I wanted and I didn't get to really blend the paint into the road stripe of the photo as well as I wanted. Trying to do a studio style shot in the middle of a real road surface was a challenge in itself!
I can imagine the looks I got of me laying in the middle of the road wating for the clouds to move overhead into just the right postion. :-)
