Activity 10.1: Replace a sky

Using two images of your choice, replace a sky in one image with a sky from another image. 

If you are unable to find any suitable images in your library, stock photo sites Unsplash and Pexels provide free, high quality images.

• Unsplash https://unsplash.com/
• Pexels https://www.pexels.com/

Replace a Sky

For this exercise I was going out with my camera to take some photos but it’s been raining quite heavily and i will be finding an image or two from Pexels instead so I’m going with a different idea for a composite which I’ll be emailing to my lecturer as well to see if I’m on the right path with creating a composite image and blending right in Photoshop.

The Pexels Images I’m going to go with are A ravine /rocky out crop and a girl on a rope in mid air

I’m quite enthusiastic about this exercise because it’s something I’ve always wanted to learn but never had the time or motivation to do it. I now have both so it’s going to be a technique and skill i really want to perfect in the goal of creating beautiful landscape photo’s as that’s my passion, but I’m also keen to learn compositing in general for the fine art photography possibilities and creativity and skill it takes to make a composite surrealistic image.

So for my composite image where i am replacing the sk, I found a sky with a girl on a tight rope type thing to create a slightly more interesting composite. Following the same method i used above, First opening the Rocky Cliff/ravine image and making a duplicate layer and then selecting and masking the area i wanted to change being the white boring sky. i did this by going into the properties panel, chose View>On Black and in the mini tool palate i chose the Quick Selection Tool chose brush and adjusted the size and hardness and painted in the sky area to select it and pressed OK. To Make the composite i opened up the tight rope image and selected it and copied it and then went back to my canyon image and pasted it in. I then clipped the tight rope image by right clicking on it and selected the option create clipping mask, i then clicked and dragged the tight rope girl to where i wanted her and added an adjustment layer on the layers palate and selected gradient. in the gradient layer i then chose the Foreground to Transparent gradient switch, before creating another clipping mask layer and made adjustments in contrast brightness etc to come up with my final image. I can probably do a bit more to it but so far I’m pretty happy with my creation.

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Activity 9.2: Refine selections with Select and Mask

Using an image of your choice, begin experimenting with Photoshop’s Select and Mask command to refine selection edges. 

If you are unable to find any suitable images in your library, stock photo sites Unsplash and Pexels provide free, high quality images.

• Unsplash https://unsplash.com/ 
• Pexels https://www.pexels.com/ 

Activity 9.2: Refine selections with Select and Mask

So for this exercise I decided to go and look at the Photoshop tutorial section in my Photoshop app on my Mac. I found it pretty easy and simple to follow and it’s a great tool for learning simple little useful Photoshop techniques. I’ve screen shotted for you so you can see where to find the tutorials and how easy they are to use then i’ll also go into my own images and use the skill I’ve just “learned”

Selection Tool

Masking

Again I’ve done the tutorial and screen shotted step by step of me following the tutorial

Over the next few weeks I will be adding more into this as i get more comfortable manipulating my own images in Adobe Photoshop.

Activity 9.1: Develop a composite concept

Develop a concept for your third and final assessment for this subject (see brief for furtherdetails). Discuss your concept (including sketches, inspiration etc.) on your process blog.

Develop a composite concept

Anyone who knows me will know I’m a massive doctor who nut. So it wasn’t hard to come up with a concept for a composite image.

Here’s my mood board, the Dalek images are my own and taken at at property gate where this magnificent fellow stands, between Glen Innes and Tenterfield in NSW, the rest are Abode Stock Images

So far this is the concept that will be the inspiration for my final CMW assignment in colour management and compositing.