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ben.goossens

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Surrelisitic PS montage from many different photo's... no 3D involved.How it is made! There are 4 photo's involved: the mountains, the sky, the dull and a photo from a marble plate.First, i created the ground with the marble photo by using the KPT3 filter "Plana rtiling". I added a sky, which has been colored-in with the brush tool. On top of that, I added the mountains on a layer at 60% and the background wad finsished.The dull was photograped in a shop, I fist extrated it from the background and added the marble texture on a layer (in overlay). The whole was made with the oval selection tool, the dark part of it was painted with a brush and the rest is erased. Once the figure fineshed, I created the shadow and repeated all it 3 times. The egg was created with the marble plate photo, transformed with the option "Spherize", the light and shadowon the egg is done with the burn and dodge tool. At the end, I added the fog with a foto from clouds. Once everything t the right place, I flattened the image and it was finished.To make this photomontage, it tooked me 5 hours and a live time to photograph all the elements and many years of experience with photoshop.Sorry for my english.Best regards, ben

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john_h.1
Excellent artistry. BTW, How much actual photography, as opposed to graphic design, is contained in the image?
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steve_bingham
I LOVE your mind! Every single image you create is a masterpiece. You have combined the art of photography and computer rendering to an extremely high level - and yet maintained strong emotional content in the process! Pair of 7s of course. But who cares!
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rick vincent
I've seen this effect before. Goldi Hawn from the movie "Death Becomes Her". Had a hole blown right through her. Great concept piece.
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randall paul
Great piece of design work must have taken a great amount of time. I just lve al the elements of this image
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Really so inspired and so original . A Masterpiece !!!

 

7/7

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luisarguelles
Sorry to disagree, but I don't like it. While the technical virtuosity is beyond any doubt, I don't think this is photography. Image creation at the computer, yes, but no photography.
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lin_k

Hello

 

This is one of the great piece I have seen. I am curious to know how do you make the 3D effect for the objects. Are you using any 3D tool or you are using PS to get this done. If you could give some steps on how this is done, it would be great.

 

Thanks

-L

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ben.goossens

Hi Lin K,

everything is made with Photoshop and no 3D involved.

For example: the standing egg is transfromed with the filter "Tranform: spherize".

The marble structure is in overlay on the dulls.

The floor was a shooting of a marble plate and transformed with KPT filter "planar tilling"

In total there are 6 photo's involved.

 

I hope I have been of any help.

 

regards, Ben

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gordonf238
Photo.net should launch a sister site focused solely on Photoshop art. I feel that these composites are saturating the galleries here with images that have little or nothing to do with photography.
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delialorenzo
I love it. I love surrealist works and that makes me think so much, inspires me a lot of feelings. I am not an artitistic photographer in this sense. I love do landscapes but if I see something like that I would like to know how i could create it with photography. thank you very much for this photomontage. Wonderful! Greetings, Delia.
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steve_bingham

I feel Michael does not quite get the significance of what Ben's work is about. It has everything to do with photography. First he had to photograph six suitable subjects. (Properly exposed, composed, lighted, and created.). Then he had to have the creative (and technical) ability to merge these six photographs into one single image. No simple task. Lighting, tonality, composition, emotional content, and color - all functions of a good photograph - had to be created. His work is many steps beyond a simple photograph - much like a symphony is different from a solo performance.

 

Ben's work follows closely those famous PHOTOGRAPHERS that came before him: Jerry Uelsmann, Duane Michaels, Robert Heinecken, and currently Misha Gordin. And many others.

 

As Ansel Adams once said, "Photographs are made, not taken." I would strongly suggest that Michael take more time away from photo.net and spend it at the library reading about the masters of photography. I have spent over 50 years as a photographer (30 as an instructor) and I have seen hundreds of thousands of photographs over these many years.

 

Should photo.net be dedicated solely to snapshots and straight photography? I think not! How many sunset pictures can you look at before they all start blending together - and you can't remember one from the other? On the other hand, you will remember some of Ben's work should you see it again. Strong composition combined with strong emotional content. Good tonality. Interesting and unusual concepts. Unique creativity.

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