First i have taken a photograph of the background which i decided was suitable:
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| The large amount of space and an empty wall building make it a good background |
- I've taken a picture of myself on a dark backround, to then cut around it using the selection mask.
- Next, i reated a new, transparent layer on the picture of my back-ground image. Then i pasted the picture of me, now without any backround.
- With the eraser tool, i removed any remaining background from the old image around me, on the new layer.
- I re-sized "myself", to make the image more suitable for the background and make it look more authentic.
- With the same method i moved the picture of me, i've moved the image of a train ticket that i have scanned in earlier onto the work.
- I re-sized, sotated and re-adjusted the "ticket" to make it my size and with the eraser/brush tool i made it look like i was holding it.
- Using the "burn" tool i added on some shadowing onto the images, more at the bottom considering the light was coming from the top/left corner of the image. Also, with the dodge tool i increased the amount of light on the top of the figures in the same manner.
- I lowered the opacity of the brush tool, and with the colour being set to black i created the shadows on the ground.
- I saved the image as a .jpeg to keep the quality at maximum.
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The work has been produced in a combination of two artist's styles: The Jackson Twins (using myself as a model) and Jeff Wall (mixing objects/people with backgrounds in which they weren't in the first place.)
I think this work was a success, due to the shadowing and shape/size, making it look authentical but still surreal due to the size of the object.
