PUTTING THE IMAGE TOGETHER
1. Placing the images. When I first placed the elements, the lamb was dead centre & looked strange. It was the fatty white side of the leg of lamb. I decided to rephotograph a leg of lamb to get less white fat & streaks of muscle which made it look less like a white bag. Also I extended th leed so the lamb was on the right side of centre
2. Adding the fog & mist. I decided to do two levels of this. The first was a graduated white very opeque layer. The second was clumps of mistin the central area. To give the image depth of field it was necessary to mask out the trees closest to the front. Also the twigs & leaves so it looked consistant.
3. Added folliage. This was to make the feet look as if they were walking through the longish folliage/grass. Also there was some leaves added to the main trees as the light shining through them was too bright once the fog was applied.
4. Curves, desatiration, de-vibrance, darkening/lightening, blurring etc. These adjustnents were needed to make the elements look as if they belong inside the foggy forrest. For instance:
* Woody was blurred and slightly fogged to put him in a different plane to Chilli.
* The lamb was blurred, desaturated & de-vibranced
* Both dogs were darkened towards the back of them. Initially I tried to lighten the fronts but especially with Chil, her white face became too gleary ie too contrasty for the whole image.
* The folliage was blurred & de-vibranced to make them the same colour as the forrest floor
* The balloons had a colour change & were desaturated.
* The knot was desaturated & changed colour & slightly blurred
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