Wilshire Grand Vertical Panorama 1
Skyscraper (with impossible clouds)
Composite Artwork
02-14-17
I took the two photos which make up the vertical panorama, created in Photoshop Elements, on 09-02-2016 during my last long "Photo Expedition" to downtown Los Angeles. The skyscraper is the Wilshire Grand, the tallest building in L.A. and on the West Coast. They hadn't added the spire yet, and I believe the crane along the side of the building has been removed.
I'd forgotten I'd taken the photos for a panorama and stitched them together this morning.
The sky was just "blue" so I masked the sky out of the image, and now I can insert any cloudscape I wish. I didn't go so far as to figure out a way of reflecting any cloudscape I add into the glass windows of the skyscraper, but I'm sure there's a way, with the distortion tool and eraser probably. However, it's a workday, and I'm off as usual.
The clouds I added are storm clouds shot over Signal Hill about a month ago. It's actually one of my more popular images, and I flipped it, used layer masks to blend the clouds together, and then used the soft contrast tool and some clone brush magic to make the dark underside (now in the middle) disappear.
Final touch, adding my signature along the fence at the bottom of the image, using the distortion tool to align it to the fence.
Wilshire Grand Vertical Panorama 1
Skyscraper (with impossible clouds)
Composite Artwork
02-14-17
I took the two photos which make up the vertical panorama, created in Photoshop Elements, on 09-02-2016 during my last long "Photo Expedition" to downtown Los Angeles. The skyscraper is the Wilshire Grand, the tallest building in L.A. and on the West Coast. They hadn't added the spire yet, and I believe the crane along the side of the building has been removed.
I'd forgotten I'd taken the photos for a panorama and stitched them together this morning.
The sky was just "blue" so I masked the sky out of the image, and now I can insert any cloudscape I wish. I didn't go so far as to figure out a way of reflecting any cloudscape I add into the glass windows of the skyscraper, but I'm sure there's a way, with the distortion tool and eraser probably. However, it's a workday, and I'm off as usual.
The clouds I added are storm clouds shot over Signal Hill about a month ago. It's actually one of my more popular images, and I flipped it, used layer masks to blend the clouds together, and then used the soft contrast tool and some clone brush magic to make the dark underside (now in the middle) disappear.
Final touch, adding my signature along the fence at the bottom of the image, using the distortion tool to align it to the fence.