Asher - i´ll try to assemble it chronological, give me a day!
best, Klaus
The client gave me some ideas and a headline. And asked me to odo the rest . .
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I looked for some locations and selected the one in the picture. The problem was, trhe client wanted a feel of wide area, but not too wide, plants, green, nature, health, good air and so on.
A well-situated and educated elder man or woman with grandchild is kind of "teaching about life" and so on (hope i express it correct in English . . )
There should be a "way to go" or something.
I found this place with the rest, roses, bush and even a cross as it´s to be seen here.
Then i took two shots from another perspective of the field beneath the place to have the "wide, but not too wide . . ;-) " and found a way and an edge of field some hundred meters away.
Coming from the opposite direction i saw the church and a way going down to it.
So, with the start-picture in mind, i shot several perspectives and a wide pano with "the place" on the right side and arranged the single shots on transparent layers.
I used a mixture of eraser, lasso and extraction to seperate leafs and trees and the bush. Mostly it was the eraser with a tip of little dots and a soft-edge tiny tip.
basically that´s it. Very importand is to do it with a pressure-sensitive pen and tablet (Wacom 30x30cm) to contol the intensity of the soft edges of the top.
here´s a chronological array of pictures: