Unit 85

I have been given the task to take a piece of my work, in this case my FMP and create a new piece from that using a different set of techniques, for instance Photoshop.

I looked at my FMP work of a costume for a character living in a post apocalyptic setting and decided to super impose myself wearing the costume into an environment that would suit this setting.

I began by looking at other pieces of work that have images that have been super imposed for inspiration and techniques

Superimposing images is a technique used for a range of uses from advertising to cinema. I found a range of images that used super imposed images, two of them really interested me, they used old photographs from famous locations during war time and blended them with pictures from the modern day showing how little had changed in the past century 

For my superimposition I decided to take a photograph of myself wearing my costume and edit it into a scene replicating the post apocalyptic scenes my character would see.

to begin I opened the image into photoshop and deleted the rest of the background, this is done best with the magic wand tool that will select an area of similar colour, to get the best effect you should take the photograph against a block colour background.

Next I found the image I would use for the background, I found in image of a war torn building that had a large chunk of it obliterated.

next I placed the image of myself onto it, flipping it over to have the light and shadow face in the right direction and scaled it to fit.

finally I used a heavy mix of the burn tool that adds shade to the layer, I used this heavily to create a burnt smokey effect to the clothing and building, I then used the dodge tool to make the light pieces brighter and more contrasting. The smudge tool can be used lightly to blend the layers softly. I lastly used a dull red effect to make the sky look more smoggy and polluted.

After looking at my final image I realised I could have used this superimposing to create a photographic comic or a range of concept pieces. This could have taken my FMP into a completely different direction but equally interesting.