This is just a learning experience for me, but I think there may be an easier way then working the final layer mask at 184% an the feather brush set to 9 pixels and my face 6 inches from the monitor for 20 hours or so.
I really did have fun with this.
I have included the original photo as well as how I took the shot. It's only a couple thousand foot drop...no worries.
Great work
That's innovative art
I like this a lot. Twenty hours sounds about right. Very Cool.
Can you imagine what it would have taken to accomplish this before digital imaging was possible? I am reminded of the late Jerry Uelsmann, but I am not aware of him ever working with color images. What he did was hard enough.
It was possible to print B&W images on color paper, and Kodak made a panchromatic B&W paper to allow the printing of B&W versions of color negatives. There would not have been any contrast control in either case. I suspect the only way to get this result back in the day would have been to do the whole thing on regular graded B&W paper and then hand-color the brickwork. That would have required a much finer touch than I ever possessed and also extended your twenty hours by quite a lot.
Great result from all that work on those branches, and worth all the effort especially since you had fun too! I like this a lot. I've been working on a out of bounds plan right now, but just keep getting interruptions. It's coming together though. Thanks for getting the spark going.
Great job Dean, and I really appreciate the effort you have put into displaying the process so that others might get involved.
Thanks for inspiring us all to trying this technique. I am not sure if any of my shots will be suited, but I'll be sure to keep an eye open with this in mind when shooting in future.