Good work! The concept itself is visually successful. If I may add a little criticism you could have paid more attention to the books in the background and had them match up better. Also, you can see the armatures hand behind the actual foreground one. This I felt hurt your technical attention to detail and proficiency being that it's the one element that really sells the illusion. I was a digital photo clean up artist for some time so, I notice these things. You have great skills already and apparently great visual concepts. If you apply those other things that I mentioned you'll be on the right path. Good luck to you in the future!
Thank you all for your great comments.
I searched the internet for photo illusions and tricks and found this page //www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/ So I began with taking a photo of this setup with the hand using my brother as a model. Do not wear any long sleeves since it makes part 2 more difficult. Then I uploaded the image into the laptop, put the laptop in place and adjusted the image through the viewfinder of the camera to find out if things matched. Then my brother put on a shirt with long sleeve and took care not to show any part of the hand. I adjusted the hand according to the perspective of the viewfinder and "click".
It is necessary to put the camera on a tripod or somewhere where it is stable and won't move.
I was not happy about lot of things i.e. the position of the laptop image is to low, the lighting is terrible (500W handheld halogen right above scene), image not very sharp and the composition isn’t that great but it got me no. 7 so me happy ;-)
This takes some practice but I dare you all to try because the final product looks great as desktop wallpaper and family, friends and/or coworkers will scratch their heads till they become bald trying to figure this one out.
the background detracts from the image. Overall, im just not too impressed with this shot. IT could use better lighting, and it just doesnt have a wow factor for me.
we went for similar ideas. I like that you incorporated more elemnts into your screen to match up with the background. The sleeve into the hand on the screen is also a great touch. The wood desktop surface does't really compliment the image, though. overall, well done.
Very original take on the challenge! Wanna see how you got the arm to blend with the hand! Too bad your laptop image is so flat in color... I know you wanted it darker, but the hand don't look quite right. Your lighting is a little harsh on the background too.
TC
Got my eyes messes up - well done!
Think I just figured it out too - hand was image on screen, shirt sleeve had no hand in the shot. Congrats on pulling this off nicely (8)
This is a fantastic idea, unfortunately I would have liked better light setup, and more detail/sharpness. But you nailed the image on the PC :-) Very cool 8
Grumble... growl... I can figure out how you did the stuff BEHIND the screen (I think), but I can't figure out how you did the hand in front. This will be an interesting read, post challenge.
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