St Pete Suburbian..W.I.P

These evil streets..
Originally uploaded by isker

6 hours...
And my eyes where like pinballs yesterday evening..
Well, i got so inspired yesterday, that i almost didnt know what to do with myself.
Ever felt that?

Getting one step closer to the approach im looking for, with this picture i made yesterday. Hmm i think so atleast.
It contains of three components from three different photos.
(unfortunately i dont have the un-edited pictures right now so i will post them later..)

1. The background of the empty streets. A photo i took back in the old Nikon D50 days. Its thaken somwhere outside St Peterburg, when me and some friends where on our way to some palace, but the driver drove us to far. We ended up at a abandonded university area..
Quite creepy. Felt like Prypiat in Chernobyl almost. Not so ruff though..
On this picture, the sky was totally burned out, so....

2. ...i took another picture i shot at Hovs Hallar last winter.
Adjusted some exposure levels in RAW to make it abit darker and to bring our the texture/highlights and shadows of the clouds.
I cut it out and pasted it into the streetpicture.
This is always followed by a quite detailed maskingjob, but it was ok. (HAIL WACOM!)
I survived..
;)

3. Last but not least, i added the picture of Madame Martina.
A basic cut out and then i mirrored her to fit the light falling on her more to where i decided the light comes from on the picture.
This is the hardest part i think, to decide the lightsource/sources and make it look natural when combining different pictures.
So this i will get back to and practice ALOT!
I think it came out quite ok anyway?
Please let me know what you think!

The best is when you do manipulaitons offcourse is to plan the picture and take all the pictures yourself. This could make it more easier to steer from where the light is coming.
For this picture i was still basiclly practicing and testing to see if i could make it atleast a little bit realistic with "un-planned pictures". For sure there is some details if you really dive into it..
But the totality? As a whole picture?

Anyhow i posted it in Portfolio allready (Impatient AS I AM! *sighs*), but when you leave it for a couple of hours, wake up the next day and look at it with fresh eyes, im still not convinced that im fully finished with it.
I could take it a step further and add som more details.
Wings on martina maybe?
A car coming on the street somewhere?
Birds in the sky?

And i also see some technical misses i need to do better.
Lighten up some to dark areas etc...
As we say: "Do it again, and do it right"

Going straight back to i do.

Keep in touch.
/enik1