Ok, this represents waaaaaay too much time invested. About 3 hours shooting and driving and at least 9 hours of editing.
Originally I wanted to create the Dark Knight poster exactly, but I couldn't figure out how to get a good picture of Batman, so I came up with this alternative.
I shot clouds, buildings, fire, and even took my girls (as a cover story) into McDonalds to shoot the Ronald statue.
I imagine that this will be quite a competitive challenge, so I hope this stands up. It's the most time I've ever invested in a challenge, so if it tanks - I give up. =)
Editing steps:
- used shots of clouds for the sky and smoke/fog
- each building is a separate shot. the two skyscrapers were 2-story buildings I cloned up
- Ronald is a statue, I burned in shadows and liquified the menacing expression
- the fire was the worst part; it's hand painted then smudged, and I ended up doing it more than once
- text layers give it that "movie poster" feel with a couple hand-drawn logos.
- various adjustment layers to get the lighting just right
- a dark and light noise layer to unify the multiple images and match the Dark Knight original
Can't wait to see the other images in this challenge. I enjoy this kind of creative editing.
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Creative idea... mcyd's is evil. Bit more blending to make Ronald sit in the photo more making it look like one image. But good idea, good text and I hope you didn't really set that building ablaze.
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