377., originally uploaded by Opus104.
Title: “Opposing Schools of Architecture”
This image is a photo manipulation based on two source images. The image was created several months ago, so the following processing details are not precise.
The building in the image is First Canadian Place in downtown Toronto. Built in 1975, and 72 stories high, it is the tallest office building in Canada. The photo was taken from the sidewalk at the corner of the building, looking straight up.
In Photoshop, the sky was separated from the building and then deleted. The building was then cloned five times. Each copy of the building was distorted individually using the twirl command, and then positioned on the canvas (which was made considerably larger to avoid loss of resolution).
Colour treatment of the building involved inverting to a negative, and then adding a strong colour photo filter.
The second source image used was a beautiful orange, cloud-filled sunset. The sky was much to realistic and much to orange as it was, so a gaussian blur was added, and the colours were shifted to blue.
Thanks for the description. When I first saw this image I wondered how it was done. Now I have a better idea.
Hi Jim. Thanks for stopping by. Glad you found this of interest. – David
I’m one of your contacts on Flickr and love your work! It’s nice to know how photographers arrive at their final product. Thanks for the explanation.
Beautifully worked out David, love the idea of inverting it to negative, gotta try that out. As usual a master in you’re stuff.