City of Illusions by hakins
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Another one a few years old, but it gets so commonly mistaken for a photo, I thought it fit this category perfectly. I did this before I discovered 3d.
Ok....I started this with a few things that were real. They are:
5 or 6 seagulls (rest are just copies)
Left foreground bush (Yosemite shot - daylight)
3 boats
About 11 buildings
That's it. The rest involved a combination of photoshop filters, and photoshop airbrushing. (hours and hours and hours.....) Yes, the land, water, lightning, sky and most of the buildings are all painted in Photoshop. (I get asked that a lot)
I know there is color banding. The Hard Drive that stored the 600dpi finished version fried on me about three years ago, and I'm not recreating it, or cleaning a 72 dpi version. Because of the sheer volume of destroyed work, to this day we call it the Great Crash of '01. But that's another story....
Comments (5)
jocko500
look super love it
almeidap
I thought it was a photo...looking at it, it looks like 3d discovered you! Excellent!
bobutah
cool man, nice town, think i been there, amarillo...lol grat work man. thanx
kjer_99
A absolutely fantastic piece of work, wonderfully and masterfully conceived. Think I'll be adding this one to my list of Favs. As to the "Great Crash of '01," you have my greatest empathy. Been there, myself.
Denger
Fantastic! From your title, I thought perhaps it was based on Le Guin's story by the same name. Excellent mixed media piece! FIVE STARS