Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Advanced Compositing Techniques

I decided to advance my adobe skills and knowledge by trialling various tutorials which are available online.

Photoshop Tutorial: Advanced compositing techniques.

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/photoshop/advanced-compositing-techniques/#1

This photomontage by Serbian illustrator Becha was created for an haute couture fashion editorial called Silent Spring that appeared in her home country’s Faar magazine. It showcases the brightly coloured clothes and shoes of designer Ana Ljubinkovic, which are perfectly complemented by Vesna’s high-end photo-illustration style.

The work features photographic elements shot by Miloš Nadaždinin his studio, and hand-drawn type and elements created by Becha.

Below is my outcome, following the tutorial.

As you can see the result slightly differs from the above, a few steps were missed at this stage im not confident with using the paint brush at this stage and I wasn't too happy with the writing on the top.

Photoshop Further Developments

Further Developments

Just a few basic developments, mainly done through boredom.

Developed further to make the graffiti stand out by decreasing the saturation of the background. The above is my favourite, very minimal editing went into this.

Robert Frost Inspired Development

Developed further using Robert Frost's poem as inspiration, I'm not to sure about this edit, the original image was of one path, I struggled creating the effect of two paths. 

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Not to sure about this development, I wanted to explore typography. This was a very basic quick edit, even though I don't like some of my work I still would like to show them on here.

Idris Khan Inspired Developments

Idris Khan Inspired Developments

Idris Khan is an artist based in London. Khan's work draws from a diverse range of cultural sources including literature, history, art, music and religion to create densely layered imagery that is both abstract and figurative and addresses narratives of history, cumulative experience and the metaphysical collapse of time into single moments.

Today I decided to develop further some of my photographs from the other day. I have previously used Idris Khan as inspiration for my developments during college and I wanted to do this again. 

Below are some examples of Idris Khans work.

Using Photoshop I had already developed, I edited them further using Khan as inspiration.
My developments are a lot darker than the above work but I think it adds to the mood of the image, some of my developments I don't really like due to the visible layered lines.

Basic Developments/edits

Basic Development/Edits

Following today's photo-shoot, I developed the following photographs using Adobe Lightroom below are the results. 

I have always preferred black and white photographs to colour, this can be seen in my editing, I like creating a moody/dark image. I also found the sepia style development quite interesting it creates a vintage, antique style image.