Anything Goes - Crudo Corazon

I used several photographs for this project to make a photographic collage entitled - Crudo Corazon or Raw Heart. To create this image I started with a picture of an open book. Then I found a drawing that I really liked from Leonardo's notebook. I put this image on top of the notebook and made it transparent. The image from Leonard's notebook fit with the theme of macro photography because it is a drawing of something up close something not usually seen. Then I found a macro picture of raw t-bone steak and I made a copy of it. I made the steak layers transparent and messed with the hue/saturation of the whole image on an adjustment layer. I also used the burn tool to make the crease of the book show up more and made some final adjustments using the blur tool to make things blend a little more. To top it off I added the text Crudo Corazon to the bottom left corner.

Perspective Project - Breath of Fire

To create this image I started with an up close image of fire and used it as the background. Then I found an image of a man breathing fire and decided to use his face several times to create perspective and depth. I used the magnetic laso tool and the selection tool to select the fire breather from his original background. Then I cut and pasted his face into the fire layer. Then I adjusted the size and placement of each face creating the illusion of perspective. When I first placed the faces against the background the edges of the shapes where too harsh and did not blend well into the background which is want i wanted. So I used the blur and smudge tools to create a softer more blended look. I think it looks more like the faces are emerging as part of the fire.

I used two different macro photographs to create this new image. The final product isn't necessarily a macro photo but it's interesting to use up close images and collage them together - what emerges isn't always predictable.

The Flowering Woman

To create this image I used a google image search to find a pictures for the background and foregroud. I ended up finding this really striking black and white image of a woman in motion which i used for the background. Then I decided to use macro photos of flowers to cover her. I opened all the images in photoshop and used the magnetic laso tool and quick selection tool to define the flower shapes. I then copied and pasted the flower images into the background layer and resized and arranged their shapes until i came up with the final product. I am happy with the result and think it looks great.

I used macro photos of flowers to create a layered embellishment on an existing image. Using up close photos as elements of collage.