Hello :)
It took me quite a bit of work in photoshop to get my halloween entry how I liked it, and it got 4th place so it can't have been too bad. I know it's digital art more than photography, and it's a very bad example of using photoshop to keep the integrity of a photo. Took a photo of my dad, deliberatly out of focus and deliberatly blown out. Then I took a photo of my staircase and had to do a lot of false perspective work on it because i wanted the top to look a long way away. That's why it seems a bit pixellated near the foreground. I also narrowed the staircase to give a more enclosed and trapped feel. Each element of the photo was adjusted on its own layer to give a more surreal effect. The staircase, the banister, and the figure are all seperate elements. I also did a lot of "Replace Colour" in photoshop to make everything white.
Here are the 2 original photos:
Here's my entry:
I thought something about this didn't quite look right (which was the idea anyway) but I also did another version with a shadow.
Obviously the shadow was completly fake, and because I'm still a bit of a newbie in photoshop, it didn't look convincing enough for me to use. It makes the whole thing look like a drawing, a total photoshop creation, rather than just an edited photo.
Before I did the staircase idea, my original intention was to have the figure kind of emerging from an alien space ship, but unfortunatly I couldn't get hold of a UFO in time :( I did however use a candy tin to get this effect:
It looks very highly edited but I just used a weird white balance, some coloured lights, and then a lot of brightness/contrast adjustments. I also expanded the tunnel with the clone tool to make it continue off the edge of the photo. This one looked too photoshoppy to me, and it wasn't obvious that any of it was a photo.
My other possible entry looked like more of a graphic design than a photo, that's why I didn't entry it.
Anyway, I'll stop blabbering on now. Just thought I'd let anyone who is interested know my thought-process :)
Message edited by author 2003-11-10 02:41:54.
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