I acutally used six images instead of just four because I was originally only going to use four until I started adding a couple and a whole new world started creating itself in my head so I added two more pictures to round it off. All my images are snagged from the internet. At first I really had no idea what I was going to do or what pictures I was planning to use but I knew I wanted some sort of scenary in it so I started with the mountain reflection picture which I took from http://desktopwallpaper-s.com/42/-/Norway_Mountains/ . Then I decided to have a whole different background but in space since it seemed like a cool concept so I looked up pictures of space and pulled the sweet background you see on almost every new mac model from this site http://www.coolwallpaperslk.com/2011/03/space-hd-wallpapers.html . Then I didn't know what to put in it but the mountain was floating so I decided to put some sort of flying thing in there so that's where the airplane came in which I snagged from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ . Then I decided to through an animal in there and thus the eagle takes form and came from http://www.squidoo.com/bald-eagles-?utm_source=google&utm_medium=imgres&utm_campaign=framebuster . Then when I saw that these two melded together I decided to put something on the other side but with ground transportation so I got the horse from http://www.whitegadget.com/pc-wallpapers/141792-horse.html and the car from http://www.carinsurancecomparison.com/minimum-car-insurance/
The most challenging thing for me when putting the images together was finding a way to blend them so they all kind of looked as if they sort of belonged in the picture. I played around with different lighting and textures and finally came to consenses of putting all the small pictures in luminasity and the background in pin light. The mountains remained the same. It was tedious when I was masking the the smaller pictures and the mountain so that their backgrounds didn't show but I got it done and it wasn't terribly difficult.
The story I guess I'm trying to convey here in this photomontage is that there use to just be nature in the world before humans and electronics and those kinds of modes of transportaion but now they're just a refection to today's society. I thought the mountains and space could tie it all together and make it look like a different world.
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