Fantasy Landscape

For our final task we were told to create a fantasy landscape using images that we have photographed outside of college.. When people say landscapes it doesn't have to be mythical creatures, it can be just something out of the ordinary, a tree in a class room for example.
My idea was to have doors in a grassy landscape, that sounds simple enough but i would need to add shading and blurring to the image before the image looks remotely believable.

This was one of the photos i would be using for my shot, it is quite a sunny location so if i were to add images to the shot i would have to add shading any objects that have been added so that the image flows well.

In my opinion the image to begin with was too bright so to edit this i changed the brightness and contrast of the image slightly, that way i feel that it looks better.
Also the doors that i would be using were to bright as well, the way the sun is shining on the field shot i would need to change the brightness of the door to mimic what it would look like if the sun did shine down on the door.






To add the door from another image to my field shot i would have to cut and paste the door on the image. I can do this by using the lasso tool.

Lasso- This option will allow you to freely draw around an image, however with this option it is much easier to go over the image and go wrong.
Polygonal- This option allows you to draw in straight lines around the image, this is good for images that have a lot of straight lines but is not really that good for curved objects.
Magnetic- This option clings to the edges of an images, whichever edge you are close to. This can be quite a good tool to choose.

Another way to highlight an image would be to use the quick mask tool, this is quite a good way to highlight and image the way you want to.

The red area in this image is the stuff that will be deleted, this would then leave the door, this is quite a good way to get the image you want, but it can take time depending on how big and complicated the image is, in this case it wasn't really that complicated, it had a lot of straight lines which kept it quite simple.

To add the image to my field shot, i went to edit, copy then paste, the image now is on the other image.




However looking at the shot as it is their, the door looks really out of place, i would have to change the brightness/contrast of the image to get it to suit the image. Also i would have to add shading to make it blend into the image. I need to take into consideration the direction the sun is facing, i couldn't just put shading anywhere.










The door looks too sharp to be in the image, to make it look a bit more subtle i would have to blur the edges of the image to make it look a bit softer and not so 'in your face'.

When considering shading, i was going to just use black and change opacity of the paint, i then thought that if i chose a darker green painted where the shadow would be and overlay that on the image it may look more like shading.

It started to look more believable now, however the bottom of the image still didn't fit the image, using the burn tool i was able to make the door look like it was in the grass.

before

after










Looking at the door now it seems to blend more into the grass and the shading, they seem to blend into each other which was the effect i was going for.

The first door is now complete, looking at the image as it is it, it seems to fit more than it did before it was edited.

When adding the other door, i did the same steps i did with this door, i used the mask tool to go around me image and cut and pasted it into my field image.

Again i changed the brightness and contrast of the image to make it look like the sun is actually shining down onto the door.
The shading and burning seems to have had the same effect as the first door. 


The debate i had about my image was whether to have it in black or white, or keep it in colour.

In my opinion it looks better in black and white, the doors seem to fit better in this colour scheme.