Day #18 of shoehorns presses on with this view of the stunning Dallas Skyline for the "Urban Landscapes" challenge.
Held the shoehorn in front of my monitor using a pair of hemostats. Did a bit of cloning to blend shoehorn tower in around the grassy hill. (No, it's NOT the grassy knoll!)
Then I played around with various colors and treatments until I decided that B/W looked best, but it still reminded me of a cheesy model in a rubber monster movie. At that point, I got completely carried away. It was a useful exercise that improved my skills in using layers to blend in the Godzilla image.
There are some swirly lines in the grass and sky that are a little out of place.
The swirly lines are a moire pattern from my monitor. I did some blurring and noise reduction to try to minimize them, but it was a trade-off. I could not totally obliterate them without killing other details. I know there is some trick to getting a clean shot from a monitor, as I have see others do it effectively.
This is great. Godzilla is not that apparent in the thumbnail, so the "meaning" of I got carried away did not hit me till I looked at the full size. The shoehorn and Godzilla PP is pretty seamless and looks "real". There are some swirly lines in the grass and sky that are a little out of place.
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