How amazing it would be to photograph a real dinosaur. All of the depictions of dinosaurs in articles and books are always illustrations and photographs of their skeletons. With Photoshop, though, it's possible to create visually compelling images of these amazing, extinct reptiles that look photographic as opposed to 'an artist's interpretation.' I buy detailed models of various species of dinosaurs, and then I photograph them from different angles and in different lighting conditions. I then use Photoshop to combine those images with landscapes or seascapes from my files. In this case, I placed the Amargasaurus into a backlit scene on Bandon Beach of the Oregon Coast. The challenge was to blend the lighting on the dinosaur with the environment, and I did that with the gradient tool after I'd used the eyedropper tool to take color samples from the background. Notice that even though the sun is behind the foreground elements and everything is silhouetted, nothing is black. The light quality of a silhouette is a function of how high the sun is in the sky. Had the sun been on the horizon, the Amargasaurus and the surrounding rocks would have been black with little or no detail. The only known skeleton of this 125 million year old animal was found in Argentina in 1984.
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