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When the Skull strikes you'll Scream!
When the Skull strikes you'll Scream!
alexlky


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Challenge: Ghosts (Expert Editing)
Camera: Nikon D300s
Lens: Nikon AF-S Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR
Date: May 8, 2012
Date Uploaded: May 10, 2012

 Early pre trial editing with recently taken IR image. The girl is from my old stock. Look too cartoon. Skid the idea.


Now images for challenge. My new experimenting of expert editing from two images.

The snapshot of skull image. It's a hand carved bone pendant. This pendant was purchased in 1994 at Bali, Indonesia.


Sky texture.


Before getting the result. I did the first editing took many hours with another texture. This is the tutorials: //www.csswow.com/how-to-apply-textures-to-uneven-surfaces/

And texture:

It doesn't work at all with skull but portrait should work.

Then the second trial from the tutorial with another landscape sky...... a result really wasted my time.


The editing for the entry image.
1. The skull was chop off with brushing in layer mask.
2. Paste image to sky then Colour Match. There is a caring member given a link of this and I can't remember who. Anyway, thanks.
3. 50% Opacity, resizes the skull and place it at best location with texture.
4. Gaussian blurring the skull about 8.
5. Layer mask and brushing off some part of the skull.
6. Level adjustment, dodge and burn, shadow highlight like my commonly photography editing.

Done! it's a simple newbie style learning. Expected to get hammering.

Thanks for the reading.





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Nikon D750
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8D
 05/17/2012 11:13:31 PM
Nice melding of the clouds and skull.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 05/16/2012 04:48:33 AM
Wow! I see it! Great image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM II
05/15/2012 12:59:55 AM
aha this is great! i airbrushed a similar image on to one of my guitars but the skull was eviler (more evil) and had lightning throughout
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS R6
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 05/14/2012 07:04:58 PM
Nice job playing with the obscure.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Google Pixel
Canon EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 II USM (Black)
 05/11/2012 12:31:13 PM
Not a bad idea and the execution is not entirely poor, there is something about the blurriness of the pixels (maybe from a weird filter you used) that make the image seem extremely poor in quality. I would have also enjoyed this photo more if you worked the clouds sort of into the face of the skull making the sky itself a skull rather than just an opaque overlay thought thats a ton more work, not bad.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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