john October 9th, 2006 .

Matte painting #27

Here is an ocean/sky thing which I made from lots of photos and some original painting.

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Photoshop CS2; 3 hours (source photos courtesy: FXPHD)

The hardest part was just getting a decent composition out of such random cloud photos and forcing them to cooperate with one another. Clouds can give one such fastidio. This was a good exercise to grade image quality and see how far I can stretch image resolution before it doesn’t work anymore. It’s also a good exercise to see how far I can be stretched before I don’t work anymore.

And here are the source photos I used:

sky4.jpgsky2.jpgsky3.jpg

ocean.jpgsky1.jpgsky5.jpg

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  1. Wow, I’m glad you are posting these matte paintings. It’s interesting to see your process. I especially like the cloud painting.


    Kari
    October 14th, 2006

  2. Thanks, kari! I’m not sure I’m able to call it a ‘process’ yet, but sometimes something emerges from the muck and mire of these images and actually ends up looking like something.


    john
    October 14th, 2006

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