Bad moon a risin!

[windrider86]

This was an old pic that i decided needed some help. I had taken a pic of an old abaonded building at the Ludlow massacre site and then put his moon behind it. Thoughts?

[clockdoc]

Excellent shot of the moon! Unfortunately the building and foreground don't enhance the mood or effect for me. Perhaps it is the size of the moon that commands so much attention.

[Saralonde]

Interesting idea, but my first thought is "Photoshop". The size of the moon seems to overwhelm the building.

[xxpinballxx]

Looks like an album cover and the title of the album to me. I mean the title fits....now if it was just the moon up in the sky all porportionate with the building it would be a little less obvious. It is BAD moon rising. I think the realism is defintely not there so as an artistic photo its nice.
I really like it and do think it could be a book or album cover and title.
The only rocessing I think it needs is the building need some softer edges so it doesn't stand up off the photo.

[windrider86]

Funny you should all say that cause it is for an cd cover and it sold for a good chunk of change just as it is!

[Overexposed !]

Hey Windrider86
I like your photo and think it is a great piece of creative art. I would like to try and sell some of my creative photos but don't know were to start! Any advice you could give? Thanks Overexposed ! Oh, I will try and post one soon called SINISTER HOUSE, hope you will comment.

[windrider86]

The items I have sold are mostly thru people I have met and have done business with thru out the years. I am good friends with several people who own magazines and some publishers and quite a few people who are in bands, so its mostly thru word of mouth. I'll look for yours but please know I am no great expert!

[Overexposed !]

Hey Windriver86, below are instructions sent to me by a friend named Pat. I asked him how he combined images and created such neat textured photos.


" I just take a photo of something that has a really nice texture to it. I try to avoid wood and artificial patterns in things, though you CAN use them too. You can see in these photos that their is no pattern at all in it. It was actually a photo i took while sitting at my mothers' table in her kitchen..of her wall paper. It was sort of a texture design. Then, all you have to do is to open the texture photograph and SELECT/ALL and then EDIT/COPY. Then just exit that photograph. Now open your preffered photo, and go to EDIT/PASTE. Now it will be a "layer" over the top of your original photograph. If you don't see the Layers' Palette, just go to WINDOWS/LAYERS. It's in photoshop....the WINDOWS..it's at the top of your screen. Now, you just click on that tiny little arrow on the layers pallette and experiment with the different blending modes. They are called things, like....multiply, screen, overlay, luminosity,etc.etc..you'll see it. It's a tiny little arrow that has a dropdown list with these names. I usually end up with the Soft Light or the Multiply blending mode...that works. If it's too dark..i just go to the LEVELS and adjust the middle slider. You might want to copy all of this info and paste it in wordpad or something to go by later on. If you don't know what LEVELS are, let me know."

Hope this helps you to get started - Overexposed