An advertisement campaign from Zurich. This is a good example of post production merging two photographs into one

Here, I have tried to replicate this style of photograph using photoshop by layering two images into one. One black and white and one colour, placing them on top of each other in layers and then using the eraser tool to remove part of the top layer using a special splat tool to create the effect that someone has just spilt ink or water colour paint onto the photograph.

My inspiration for my photograph of the moon came from this series of advertizing campaigns that I found in volumes in "Archive" magazine. The first photograph is very simple as they have used very simple techniques of cutting and pasting a silhouette for which no special lighting was needed so this was in fact exceedingly simple,

The next images are from a campaign for the WWF to show the destruction of the rain forests. It is a very clever photographic advertisement and a very powerful image as the construction of a leaf is very similar to the manmade construction of towns and cities. The roads and rivers are positioned like the veins on a leaf. Contextually there is great symbolic meaning.

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Another advertisement campaign from the BBC for its worldwide news stations. A very simple collage shot of the continents on a map which is quite difficult to see as it takes some time to work out the information presented but nevertheless it is a very powerful campaign.


My idea of the reflected eye came from several advertisements using eyes, mirrors and other objects with reflections within them in order to tell the story of the campaign. This is a very simple idea but very complicated to replicate as the reflections have to be lit just the same and the reflections of the surfaces must be replicated also. This is a very powerful campaign as the photographs themselves stand out very well as it would not normally be seen in the real world. The results are very realistic

For the task of using two different images in order to create a totally new one I chose to use the eye and tried to replicate some of the ideas of reflections inside objects. For the final set of images I chose to use a photograph of the Leeds International Pool drained out. I took this on film which had to be scanned in, high quality at 400DPI to match the quality of the digital and therefore to be blown up further.
The same process of production was used in the earth/moon as one may see from the screen grabs




Here are the final images I produced in the series showing reflections within eyes and the use of layers, feather tools and cloning. Also, some of the reflected images had to be scanned in on the film scanner at 4500DPI in order to create fine quality

This photograph here shows an explosion in his eyes - maybe connoting the sense of the creation of an idea or the complete annhilation of it for the eyes are known as the windows to our souls
A creation of two images - one of the shots of the sun was shot at 8000th of a second showing the sun properly as the light is in a strobe. The photograph was layered on top of the other and an eraser tool was used to blend the two images together on a feathered setting.




An image of the eye using cutting and cloning tools in order to create a surreal photograph of an eye with no pupil.

For this series of images I was trying to create an image of the moon and the earth merged into one to create a shot of the moon with the earth's surface incorporated within the sphere of the moon - an idea inspired by the fact that the moon was actually a part of the earth millions of years ago before an asteroid hit the earth and broke of a large piece which is now a natural satellite that we know as our moon.
In shooting the photograph of the moon I used a telephoto lens 400mm taken on a shutter speed of 5 seconds and an aperture of 11
The photograph of the earth I took from a web site but I had to find the correct colour variations to merge with my moon as it is very grey and a very blue one would not be correct.

Step one - here we see how I copied and pasted the earth's shot using a circular selector but I had to apply a feathering on it in modify setting it to 100 pixels to create a dissolved cut

Step two - copy the selected area and paste it into the moon shot which will create a new layer. Make sure it is on top of the moon.

Step three - move the earth over the moon and then use a scaling tool to scale it down to the right size.

stage four - use an eraser tool, setting it on dissolve and change the opacity to 30. Using this, delete the sea and parts of the earth to show through the craters of the moon on the layer behind it.

The overall effect has blended very well and created a truly subtle shot.

A series of photographs showing how images may be changed with CS3 in scaling and downsizing
showing the capabilities of raw format and its abilities to change the colour balance completely

The use of post production in photography is not a new phenomenon. In fact. the earliest photographers , such as Man Ray, used dark room processes to create entirely new images from original photographs. Shots taken using multiple layers are created when the negative is exposed more than once.

A photograph I took is shown here. It was taken on 6 by 7 medium format camera with a 37ml fisheye lens which causes even more distortion. A photograph of a war memorial close up and then another photograph of the same memorial showing its location

A photo montage produced in CS3. The photograph that I first took shows the CCTV tower. I inverted the colour band into infra red heat artistic style with filters and then, once I had the final image, I cut out the cameras and duplicated them three times AS well as this, I took another photograph of eyes and layered them on top of the camera lenses but the photograph I had to put through the filters in the same way

On the left hand side you can see how I constructed the image through layering

The overall image that I was trying to replicate connoting the very controversial issue of state power and surveillance in which UK citizens live these days for the UK has more cameras per square mile than anywhere else in the world so that whenever one leaves one's home in the UK one is likely to be filmed on CCTV more than 10 times before one returns
. The adding of the eyes connotes "Big Brother" and paranoia

Here is some experimental photoshop with the use of art filters to try to make the photograph stand out even more. I feel this has been successful as the original was quite dull and boring due to the lack of light and colour to be seen on the day the shot was taken in the park