Books Are Magical

This was an exercise in creating the appearance of levitation. I used three separate photos to create this. On image was taken of just the background without the elevated book. The second image was of the background again with certain elements painted with light, like the pelican and the books in the foreground. And the third image was a photo of the background with an open book (that I also painted with light) sitting on top of a cylinder jar.

 

I layered all three images masking in our or out the specific elements and then added a shadow under the book using Lightroom.

Done