Jeff Wignall
Paris Statue with Pattern
This is a two part photograph: part reality and part Photoshop. The silhouette of the statue was shot in Paris near the Eiffel Tower (it's just across the street next to a bridge on the Seine). I stripped the dull background away in Photoshop CS3 thinking I might replace it with an out-of-focus scene from Paris. But while playing with the statue shot, I was also creating patterns in Photoshop and decided to marry one of the patterns into the background. Putting the pattern in the background was simple. First I selected the background (using the marquis tool at a high setting) and then used the "paste into" command to paste a copy of the pattern. The pattern is actually a close up of a bison hide (on a living bison) that I shot at a prairie reserve in Iowa. I used the hue & saturation and some other tricks to create the false colors. There is a basic tutorial on using Hue & Saturation on individual colors on my site. The whole thing only took about 10 minutes but I kind of like the idea that this is a shot of a statue in Paris on top of bison fur. You'll find a few more abstract things in my Beyond Reality gallery on my site. Copyright 2008 Jeff Wignall.
Paris Statue with Pattern
This is a two part photograph: part reality and part Photoshop. The silhouette of the statue was shot in Paris near the Eiffel Tower (it's just across the street next to a bridge on the Seine). I stripped the dull background away in Photoshop CS3 thinking I might replace it with an out-of-focus scene from Paris. But while playing with the statue shot, I was also creating patterns in Photoshop and decided to marry one of the patterns into the background. Putting the pattern in the background was simple. First I selected the background (using the marquis tool at a high setting) and then used the "paste into" command to paste a copy of the pattern. The pattern is actually a close up of a bison hide (on a living bison) that I shot at a prairie reserve in Iowa. I used the hue & saturation and some other tricks to create the false colors. There is a basic tutorial on using Hue & Saturation on individual colors on my site. The whole thing only took about 10 minutes but I kind of like the idea that this is a shot of a statue in Paris on top of bison fur. You'll find a few more abstract things in my Beyond Reality gallery on my site. Copyright 2008 Jeff Wignall.