Day to Night… …Harvest Moon fantasy
Posted: August 31st, 2015, 5:46 pm
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…Part 1 of 2…
Sometimes I like to create ‘fantasy’ composite images and by doing so, I learn more about PWP’s transforms and tools… …these images are not always successful but I thought I would share one that turned out reasonably plausible [it is after all a ‘fantasy’] even at 1:1 zoom and a full size of 4896x3264 pixels…
The selection process… …start with a theme and an idea of what the composite should comprise, such as, at this time of year when the moon is closest to the Earth and Harvest Moon scenes are in vogue... ...Reviewing my photo files, I recalled a scene from Monument Valley, UT taken this last May without any particular uniqueness having an ‘I was there’ ambience and a late afternoon scene from my yard of a rising moon in clouds taken in March 2011…
1st consideration… …Direction of major light source(s) and resulting shadows.
The two base images were rotated and mirrored as needed to have a common major light source from the upper left with shadows extending downward lower right…
2nd consideration… …create a night time ambience in the base images by shifting the major portions of the histograms to the left but keep the original white points… and de-saturating… …this is similar to the late 1940’s westerns where night time was created by darkening the film daytime negatives but it was obvious that a moon would not create such strong well defined shadows.
3rd consideration… …create a Star Field mask.
This was done by Extracting the Red channel of a ‘new’ 4896x3264 Black pixel image where an 100% Gaussian RGB noise had been applied… …The Red channel was then masked and its 85-100% tone range selected with the Mask Tool – Brightness curve and a +5 feather added…
…end of Part 1 of 2…
…Part 1 of 2…
Sometimes I like to create ‘fantasy’ composite images and by doing so, I learn more about PWP’s transforms and tools… …these images are not always successful but I thought I would share one that turned out reasonably plausible [it is after all a ‘fantasy’] even at 1:1 zoom and a full size of 4896x3264 pixels…
The selection process… …start with a theme and an idea of what the composite should comprise, such as, at this time of year when the moon is closest to the Earth and Harvest Moon scenes are in vogue... ...Reviewing my photo files, I recalled a scene from Monument Valley, UT taken this last May without any particular uniqueness having an ‘I was there’ ambience and a late afternoon scene from my yard of a rising moon in clouds taken in March 2011…
1st consideration… …Direction of major light source(s) and resulting shadows.
The two base images were rotated and mirrored as needed to have a common major light source from the upper left with shadows extending downward lower right…
- DayToNight_originals_600px.jpg (67.46 KiB) Viewed 2504 times
3rd consideration… …create a Star Field mask.
This was done by Extracting the Red channel of a ‘new’ 4896x3264 Black pixel image where an 100% Gaussian RGB noise had been applied… …The Red channel was then masked and its 85-100% tone range selected with the Mask Tool – Brightness curve and a +5 feather added…
- DayToNight_StarField_600px.jpg (28.26 KiB) Viewed 2504 times