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Photo composites

Photographs blended in Photoshop into single scenes. Surreal, cinematic, and built out of pieces that were never in the same room.

Role
Graphic design
Built with
Photoshop
A composite of a soldier in green forest light whose right eye has been replaced by a glowing machine, embers in the air around him.

This is the image half of the graphic work. Photographs cut apart and recombined in Photoshop until they read as one scene: a man sitting in lotus on the back of a whale over an empty road, a soldier whose eye has been replaced by a machine, a car on a waterfront that it was never photographed on.

The craft in a composite is not the cut. It is everything after: matching the light direction across sources that were shot hours and continents apart, getting the colour temperature to agree, and putting enough haze and grain over the join that the eye stops looking for it.

  1. A man sitting cross-legged on the back of a whale that swims through water covering an empty road, with a city skyline behind and a small drone above.
  2. A planet rising over dark water, with a small figure in the foreground.
  3. A soldier in green forest light with a cybernetic eye, embers in the air and a figure behind.
  4. A yellow sports car lit from below on grass, against a night waterfront skyline with a ferris wheel.
  5. A figure silhouetted in a doorway against a bright projection.
  6. A wet street at night under a yellow neon sign reading Dock Street, with a taxi passing.
  7. A figure walking away down a neon-lit street between tall buildings.

Stillness on the roadPlanet riseAI warfareNight driveDoorwayDock StreetNeon walk

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