Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to do a surrealist photo montage / manipulation on the theme of "Urban Fantasy" / "Urban Phenomenon" (Me: Surrealism? NOOOOOO.. i don't wanna! Anything but that!!! GARGH!!! Ed: you've got no choice kiddo. *sounds of a quarrel and scuffling*). Hang on tight... cos awaaaaaaay we go...
Chosen Technique: Photo Montage
Prototype 1:
Prototype 1A:
Tricks involved (READ: How i got the desired effect):
Both shots are (believe it or not) only essentially made up of 2 photographs. 1 of city scape (the flats) and a perspective shot of money plants (which turned into the red and green bits).
So what did i do? Well... basically if you notice, the flats in the picture are sort of warped and symetrical. So i started off with taking 1 picture and cut it in half down the middle. Got rid of the right side. Then i warped the remaining part of the pic, followed by duplicating the left and flipped horizontal (i'm a big fan of duplication and flipping). So voila, symmetrical image!
So... take that with the money plants, rinse and repeat (no warping this time though. Except that i did a little scaling instead). For that green "bear / lion" head looking thing, that was from a symmetrical duplication of the money plants (yes believe it or not). So it got scaled up to look more like a head (cool, no?).
To make things a little more interesting (and not to mention surreal), i threw on a few adjustment filters to screw around with hue and saturation. And to make all things blend well together i had vector masks utilising gradients to do blending. At that point, it was still a little too "bright" for my liking, so i thought, "hey let's throw on some rendered clouds". For 1A i decided that just for kicks i'd try a liquify effect using clockwise swirls on the flats, to give warping kind of feel. dunno if that worked well though.
aaaaannnd... that's about it really.
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