About the Image(s)

I've been playing again! I wanted a creative image which involved lots of different elements for a montage evening. This started out as a photo of a large glass head taken against a plain background. I converted to mono and increased the contrast. Then I used the smoke from an incense stick which I had altered some time ago using blend modes, which also had to be made mono. Then I extracted some water drops and converted and cleaned up so only the drops showed and rotated it . I put the smoke on the left of the head and the water drops as if the smoke demon was holding them, with the largest drop on the forehead. The eyes came from a mono portrait session, each individually selected and then placed over the empty eyes, upping the contrast and skewing so they fitted. The lips from the model were given a much redder tone, then changed to mono and dragged onto the head and tidied up. I made a vignette round the whole so the head would be against a dark background. I think I also used a blend mode to make it look more metallic.
I know most of you don't do anything like this, but if I'm in a creative mood, it comes easily and I really enjoy it.
I had great fun doing this.
Not sure whether you need to see any of the original pictures but I can add some if you do.