The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for art’s sake.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography

Well, hello there, how the devil are you all this fine autumn morning? Welcome to another splendiferous edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today concentrates its creative focus on images that are; Art for art’s sake.

You probably won’t be all that surprised to learn that I stuck with my chosen oeuvre and constructed some photo collages to meet this week’s brief.

I had two initial ideas; firstly to use a shot of the tubular steel rings in my interesting perspective post as concentric frames for three separate images; secondly to try and give the impression of the sea rushing out of an open doorway.

The first concept wasn’t a problem and I was very pleased with how that one came out. It contains 11 individual photos, all painstakingly placed, erased and blended by hand. However, I couldn’t find a suitable shot of a doorway for the second one and, due to my impatience and tendency to get sidetracked, I chose a photo of the pannier market to flood, instead. I believe that one is made from 9 carefully layered components. (Each composition took roughly two hours to complete)

Then on Saturday night, while looking for something completely unconnected, I stumbled upon a perfect candidate for my doorway idea, so I produced a third, bonus collage, which could even be the best of the lot, see what you think.

I think my favourite part of this one is the swan in the clouds
Those stalactites on the ceiling are actually only three inches long
A second appearance by Death (he’s also a stall holder in the market, above), along with my favourite ever bird photo

Where did your artistic muse lead you over the weekend..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

18 thoughts on “The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for art’s sake.”

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      2. It’s a very time consuming process.
        I choose a background picture and overlay whole photos on it, then painstakingly fingertip erase the parts I don’t need on my phone (I use the PicSayPro app), sometimes in two or three layers.

        I could use “remove background” software to isolate the individual elements before positioning them, but I find those apps give very sharp edges and they just look stuck on. Doing it by hand gives more control on how the overlays blend with the background.

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    1. Not at all, I really like yours, and thank you. I usually start off doing a collage without really knowing where it’s going, so I’m always impressed when it ends up being a good one. It’s almost therapeutic making them, I find it very relaxing. ;~}

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