Alan Kaplan
About the Image(s)
A little whimsy this month. The yogi, as you can see from Original 1, is sitting firmly on the ground. I was in Ljubljana, Slovenia when I took this picture and hurried a little so that I missed a corner of the yogi's carpet. The Clone Tool and Layer Mask saved me. I forget which composite it was and when it was, but someone in one of the Digital Dialogue groups I'm in suggested that I thinly outline an object to give it body. I applied that advice here with the carpet and used the Brush Tool to draw a thin black border around the front and side of the carpet.
The eastern yogi photographed in Slovenia is seen floating in Chan Chan, an Inca ruin 300 miles north of Lima, Peru. That's the magic of digital photography and Photoshop. Original 2 is one of 3 handheld rapid-fire, bracketed shots I took of this area of the ruins. The final photo of the ruin is an HDR image that was processed in Photomatix. The original sky was cloudy, as it is much of the year in and around Lima, so I used a Linear Gradient to create a sky on a separate layer. I placed the sky underneath the Chan Chan layer and used a Layer Mask on the ruin's layer to reveal the sky.
If you have a moment, I invite you visit Group 54 this month to see Levitation #2, my second floating person.
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It's still a well created image and the simpicity works well - as does the image on Group 54. WEll done.   Posted: 09/10/2021 17:05:29
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At any rate, I decided to play with the image, and I used a solid color adjustment layer to change the color of the rug to a vivid blue, to both pick up the sky color and to emphasize the object.   Posted: 09/24/2021 09:44:26
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