Some retouch photography work...

[Andrew Brooks]

Hi there,
Just had a look round this forum and theres some really nice work, thought I'd share some of my photography/digital art work, I do shots which are built out of many images, createing kind of hyper real shots...

Here's a few, and to see a bunch more you can visit my website at www.andrewbrooksphotography.com

thanks

Andrew Brooks

http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/photos/firstFinished%20copy.jpg


http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/EvacuateCity.jpg


http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/BoatPhotograph.jpg


http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/photos/Umist%20copy.jpg


http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/photos/ET.jpg

[T.Luu]

Wow! Your work is simply awe-inspiring -> straight to my favourites.
Hope we will see you and your work here more often in the future.

[Lauren Short]

Some awesome work on your site, I like the posts as well. Any info about how you do these would be greatly appreciated :teeth:

[Morbid]

Wow, they are beautiful. Number 3 looks like a painting, can't imagine how you did that one.

[eazym]

Indeed. The first three are spectacular.

[andres_pad]

holy hole-in-a-dohnut! they are incredible mate.
i wanna se mooooooooooooore :P

[claudeEGYPT]

Like everyone said, great stuff, would like to know what program you use, any info on how you put this stuff together.
Good job mate!

[jrr]

i think using a haze or some atmosphere would help these images

[Andrew Brooks]

Hi again,
Cheers for the feedback folks. All the work is done in photoshop, I always tend to use many images to build my shots, I think the boat one is made of over 300 images from 4 shoots, plus the splashes on the waves and the mist of water is made from images of star systems and the Aura Boriarlis, I don't use many filters, mostly just layers and painting bits in and transforming, all quite lowfi really. With these shots I've really been trying to almost paint with photographs, I'll drop a few more on with this reply.

Andrew

http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/4ImagesNewsletter.jpg

http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/CityNewsletter.jpg

http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/MonastryDoorNewsletter.jpg

http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/photos/CornField.jpg

[samsite999]

you have some real photoshop talent here my friend, i love them, i only wish i had the same level of photoshop skills. Ahh well cant be great at everthing!!

[Litlwing67]

Wow! I actually just got photoshop and am learning how to use it. These are very inspirational! I like to play more with the layers and combining like these then with the filters as well. very awesome

[Andrew Brooks]

Hi Again
Thanks a lot for the feedback people.
got this shot finished late last night and thought it would be a good one to share with this forum. Still got some tweeking to do on it but it's pretty close to the end thing. It looks better big, but you kind of get the idea from this...

Thanks

Andrew

[SamIce]

wow, u'v got some supreme photoshop skills also the pics are just great!
I wish i would also be able to do that... I gotta practice more..

Anyways very nice!!!
Keep on going i like it!

[Xoonz]

Couple things. First How do you cut so neatly around your images? Are you just going in real small and cutting around where necessary before layering?

Second, On this latest one I am having a hard time perciving where the light is coming from. The top right has the same exact amount of light as the bottom left. I would think that the light would have to be in two places at once to get this affect. In the end it looks like its on top of space instead of floating inside of it. Just my opinion.

[someone]

I agree about the last one, it looks sorta like it's just... There in the picture, but not really there (because of the light).

Man... The others are so incredible :D

[Andrew Brooks]

Cheers for the feedback, I'm gonna have another play with the space picture, I always saw it as being lit by the sun so the light would be pretty constant, but maybe I need to forget that a bit and get more styalised with the lighting. I'll see how it goes and post again if it works out.

Xoonz...As far as cutting the images out goes, I just get in very close and take ages over it, stick some good music in and try not the get to board. I did work with a Graphics tablet for a while because I thought that might make it easyer but I found just getting in there really close and cutting out in a really laborious way gets the best results... Also a good tip for getting a nice selection is to use a layer mask with your selection slightly feathered, then control click on the layer mask, and go to set selection to layer mask, then fether more or expand or contract your selection, then inverse the selection then go round the edges with a black brush on your layer mask, keeping an eye out for bits which need to lose or gain a bit from the selection. Not sure if I have explaned that to well, but it's quite a good way of playing with your original cutout and getting more out of it....

Cheers

Andrew

[Andrew Brooks]

hi there,
Just got a new image finished which I wanted to share. Like the others it's made of many images comped together in photoshop,, think there are over 500 in this one, from many difforent shoots.

A

http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/images/SEALAND.jpg

[zhenka11230]

Wow impressive!
Can you link to a nice tutorial web page that teaches you how to do similar edits?
Or perhaps a book! : D

-Namste