Today I want to show you my submission for a photo competition here in Boston. The motto was “The Urban Mission”. Well, not easy to find the right motive. During the last days I have played around with some macro shots and I was always impressed by eye pictures wit reflection. So I thought to do something like this with the skyline of Boston.
But to get a complete in one eye is pretty hard. Especially on a windy days. So I decided to do it with photoshop. Usually, I don’t do such heavy photoshop manipulations. But I think it might be interesting for some of you, how I achieved the result above.
- I did a picture of my wife’s eye with my macro equipment (more details about macros here). She was lying on the ground, so the she could hold still easier.
- For the reflection I used an older Skyline Picture of Boston from the Winter
- The next I used the Polar Coordinates in the Distort Filter menue of Photoshop. With this you can make a nice small planet (e.g. here) or a “barrel” of a Skyline.
- In the next step I just blend the eye picture with the pictures above. Usually multiply works relative well and give a realistic impression.
Hope you like the result and tell me about your experiences
Werner
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Fantastic result Werner! Good luck in the contest!
Amazing! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the nice feedback. I’m happy that you like it.