Digital Mountain Photography: Karlos Drinkwater: May 2016

Sunday 29 May 2016

This is a mock up of my initial concept idea. I like the stencil look and may go with the stencil as the main design concept in this poster work.

Using the golden ratio to get the placement...

The title placement, all lower-case...

Adding texture to the Title with Fijian Tapa in the background...

The final mock-Up...

Just have to shoot the elements I need now...

Working on creating scales for my fish creature. Here are the pie slice cut-outs. Turning them into scales...

I will build a layer of scales around the edge, then copy the whole layer, move inwards and re-apply but shrink a little each time.

Before scales applied

Here are the scales as I painted them with a layer mask on the surface of the fish body...

These are my photos ready for cut outs...

Kitchen jug...

This will be my scales...

Building my fishy thing...

Turning forks into fish teeth...

This U-tube sight showed me how to make a custom bubble brush ...

here is the resulting brush...

Added in some bubbles...

Here are some of my most recent photos. I've worked on them in photoshop and tied in the learning I've done in photography and digital media.

On a sunny morning street in Waitara...

this is still a work in progress...

Our stormy watrefront in New Plymouth...

Dulcie on the water-front walkway...

A ship out to sea...

Seaside Dog...

Here are some screen shots and research images from my first creature creation.

I decided to do a sea creature. So I looked up some prehistoric sea creatures.

Prepping for the shoot in my kitchen.

Once again I decided on Kitchen utensils because I thought they matched the shapes needed best for a sea creature.

Shooting on the kitchen table for the white background. Trying to make it easier to do cut-outs.

Thinking about using this "Ninja" blender somehow?

This is the image I've decided to take my inspiration from.