Digital Landscape (City Limits)

The original pictures that I combined to create my finshed product are posted below. 

 

This picture was used as the right portion of the city, I removed everything except the buildings then darkened the cross over points to the background. Since the buildings did not fill the whole horizon I had to search for an image that would fill the remaining space and proportionally fit to the other buildings.

 

 

The original background image was a far field with a shadowed fence. The sky plays a major part in this picture and is a focal point of interested in my finished digital landscape image. The horizon where the city buildings met I faded black to create some sort of mystical aspect to the image. The cows that were faded into the darkness were included to keep the farm aspect of the image visible and easier to realize when first viewing the picture.

Finally, my finished picture ended up with a space, farm and city theme that are all combined into one blended image. I chose to name the final picture "City Limits", this is because of the blending of farm, city, space themes into one image. Giving the sky an unrealistic colour and adding a planet, sun and astronaut gave the top of the picture a space view but by placing the planet and sun behind objects it gave it a sense of being farther away. Then moving to the buildings that have a light source makes it seem closer to the viewer. Also having the cows incorporated into the darkness and farm scene we can easily recognize the lower half of the picture is of a farm scene. I believe that having all three ridiculously different themes combined into one creates an unrealistic fun image.

 

Once I completed my image I decided to use my extra time to experiment with the various filters offered in photoshop. After sampling a good portion of the different filters I decided to portray my second image with the Neon Glow filter. It reminded me of a batman movie for some reason, having the dark theme with a coloured light source. It darkens the image even more than it was and creates a much deeper element of mystery. When I first saw the filter I thought something negative was occurring or about to occur in the city part of the image and the cows are looking away afraid. Also, I liked this filter because it does not give all the details of the picture at first glance but once you examine it more closely you notice the astronaut on the planet and the whole sun in the top right corner. I chose to remove the cloud covering the sun to make the sun stand out more when the filter was applied.

I chose to create a picture like the one I did because when viewing the tutorial I found the darkness in the image mysterious and interesting. It is not clear as to what is going on in the darkness between the city and farm and this creates questions regarding the darkness. Another reason I chose to explore the tutorial was because of the sky colour that was so unrealistic but that blended into the picture so well, I was interested in creating a similar picture and by following the tutorials guidelines I believe I've managed to capture the idea from the tutorial but add my personal touch's throughout the steps to create my final image.

So, I came across this image to use as the rest of the city. Even though the lighting in the buildings is completely different I figured if I faded it a bit and resized it the lighting would not stand out so much. It turned out to work well with the other buildings minus a few leaning ones.