Portfolio Development - Behance - My Image Ideas

I showed examples of other peoples work I found on Behance in the previous blog post. Their work is inspiring to me in many ways. I have started to look at more tutorials online and was able to create an image where I merged my daughters head with a building in Budapest. I have also had a pay around with the different blending modes in Photoshop to see what weird and wonderful things I could create.

Below are some of the examples I have created...




I love this image as it is more zoomed in than I have seen a lot of similar work. I also decided to only change her hair instead of it being blended in a lot more like the other peoples work I have seen. I was trying to make something a little different as there are a lot of images like this around. I think I could go back at a later date after learning more techniques and make improvements to it. I think the hair line needs to be changed and merged a little better than it has been done already.



I attempted this style for the first time with this image. I had a few images I thought could look good together so decided to experiment by adding them all together. I think if I redid this one I would change the opacity a little more so the council house can be seen better. Also I think a crop would be in order as well to take out the lamppost to the right of the image as the bright line of it draws your eye in to it when really it shouldn't do.



This image is made up of merging two images together. I took a basic image of one of my friends stood in Nottingham and merged it using blending modes to an image of obscure glass in a public toilet. I love this image as it looks in a way like it has been painted which gives it more detail and depth. I think if I re edited this image I would be tempted to make it back and white and crop it a little.



Finally this is the images I mentioned at the top of this post. I am very proud of this as it was my first attempt and it did take a lot of hours to do. I have since evolved this picture already as I could see faults which I wasn't happy with. The cutting out down the right side of the face hasn't been done well enough so there is a dark line around the ear and neck. I also don't like the white background either, I think it is too bright and the image would benefit from having a grey plain or textured background instead.



I have since made a couple of changes to that image to improve it. I did a little more editing and added a third image to the mix. It is of the ceiling inside a local church in Nottingham. I think it compliments the image very well as giving it a background which it needed to get rid of the bright white. I am much happier with this image.