Evolution - An Exercise in Extrapolations

This is not unmanipulated except for layers, perspective,

gradient, cloning, cutting and pasting from four different digital

images (moon, sky, zebra, and temple with Olympus C3000)

and one scanned image (taken in 1991 with a Pentax and

Kodachrome of Stonehenge). The moon and sky are local

(Richmond), the zebra was cloned from one at the nearby zoo,

Stonehenge is from Salisbury, England, and the temple just

barely visible is from Egypt (southern end, near Aswan). It was

an early effort to learn what PS could do and I am not really trying

to convince anyone that continental drift did not occur in

accordance with the current scientific thinking. Comments

welcome, of course. Thank you.

I think this is a good start. Zebras look strange, basically because light was very different in their original images. The left one is best adjusted to this enviroment.

I don't like the way the moon looks... too featureless. Stonehenge looks good, creates a nice mood with those cool scarlet clouds.

It isn't a great image, but has some potential and a handful of creativity.

I think I like your PSing style, I'd like to see some more. By the way, take a look at www.worth1000.com :)

Thanks for posting!

The original. No PS except for framing. Image scanned from original print off 35 mm taken in 1981 (Pentax SLR).