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This is day 4 of photomontage week and this latest image is “luminous ocean” 4th out of 15 on pxleyes.com

This image was created from a an old wooden sea groin that had been worn by the sea. The two towers of rock are actually wood in this montage. The stones were also borrowed from the original image, but used where I need them to complete the scene. The sea,sky, sand and clouds were all added to complete the montage.

Another one tomorrow…

This is the day 3 of photomontage week. This image is called “dinner”. The baby is actually looking at the tip of an acorn, not what you think!

A simple montage of a baby with an acorn, dodged and burned to look like baby lunch!

Another one tomorrow…

This is the second montage in the set I call “blue window”. This was an entry into a photoshop competition.

A graduated blue background with streams of blue snake-like sea strands behind a square panelled viewing window. The silhouettes were added at the end.

Another one tomorrow…

I am calling this week, photomontage week., where I will post one montage a day for 6 days. All of these were entries into photoshop competitions.

The first is spider.

Created from a rock, a spider, somebody’s leg, a fly and sunset was added at the end. The spider was altered to hold the thread which was also added. The perspective is from the spiders nook looking outwards.

Note: All images for the montage were obtained from free stock photos.

Another one tomorrow…

Ok I know I was due to write a post on photo restoration again but I had to tell you about this fab tool.

By definition macro photography has a shallow depth of field. It is annoying as you cannot easily increase it. With a Canon compact digital camera, CHDK, a clever little tool can be added to the memory card to give your camera extra functionality. With this new amazing array of features you can set the camera to perform clever sequences of shots. One of which is the ability to focus to the minimum distance in macro mode and then take a shot and the another every few millimetres or so.

“OK great so how is this going to improve my depth of field?”

With the dozen or so shots you have just taken you can then use PhotoShop to “stack” them and merge them down cleverly using all the bits in focus from all the images giving you amazing depth of field. It is truly a great tool!

If you really want to get into this then just search Wiki for it and you should be able to learn all you need to know.

Thanks Wiki!

Sorry to everyone who has been following me on photoshoptalent.com, their website has been down for the last week “under maintenance”, any links I have to them are broken. Hopefully photoshoptalent will sort out this problem soon. If not I will upload all the images on my photo restoration blog so I no longer have to rely on them.

Update: They are now up and running again under pxleeyes.com All data was lost so none of you would have seen all the entries. I have listed them below.

Acorn made from brass fixings

Birdhouse made from bits of a birdhouse

Jet, foreground and middle ground added to a snow scene

Same scene as the previous one but hole and foreground added

cracked paint texture and lightning added to snow scene

Snow added, it was summer before I added snow!

Lengthy removing of trees and moss, added lizard leg and head and new background and cloud smoke

Made from a chrome spoon and spatula.

I am sure I have missed a few. If I find the original images that these were made from I will add them in.

Hope you like them