On my photo tour to Scotland, my group visits many sites of once-magnificent cathedrals that are now in ruins. The Scottish Reformation banned Catholicism in 1560, and all of the great cathedrals not only fell into ruins, but local residents cannibalized the massive stone structures by taking them apart piece by piece to build homes, barns, and other structures. After all, it was easier to take blocks of stone that had already been quarried and cut into squares and rectangles rather than starting from scratch. The partial walls, broken towers, and crumbling columns are like ghosts of the past. This is the Roman Catholic St. Andrews Cathedral, and I used it as a background for my lovely model Kendall, whom I photographed in Alabama. I selected her with the quick selection tool, magnified the image to 100% to make sure the selection was perfect (and made small adjustments using the lasso tool), and then I pasted her into the background with Edit > paste. Using Edit > transform > scale, I adjusted Kendall's size to the appropriate dimensions. The clouds came from a storm in middle Tennesse that I photographed from my driveway.
3 Comments
Jul 11, 2018, 3:57:41 AM
Ian Cocking - Thanks Jim.
Jul 10, 2018, 12:21:29 PM
Jim - It's hard to say, Ian, but I would guess that about 4 or 5% of my images are composites. But that's just a rough estimate.
Jul 10, 2018, 10:46:34 AM
Ian Cocking - Hi Jim this is in my back garden, I have an unusual angle shot of the same structures main pillar, laying flat on my back as close as possible to the wall looking skyward. I like the elements you have added to the original image to make it more interesting. Just out of curiosity what percentage of your images are edited with added image parts from other images ?