Fantasy Shoot 1 - Unicorns & Creatures

Plans for the shoot:

My plan for this shoot is to initiate experimenting with the theme of Fantasy to just see what sort of effects I can create using Photoshop, and to also determine what sort of a route I want to go down with the entire project. I plan to take a camera to the forest/fields opposite Asda to shoot different locations which I can 'build' upon to create my own settings and scenes. I also want to photograph some of the horses that are kept on the fields to experiment with the character of a unicorn, as well as shooting the sky to experiment with my editing skills.

Shoot Evaluation:

I was stopped from doing a lot with this shoot as it began to rain heavily and therefore the camera was at risk of getting damaged. However, I did manage to get a few nice shots of the horses which I was able to experiment with in terms of changing them into unicorns. I used a photoshop brush especially for making horns to create the said element which characterises the unicorn, and then a range of swirly brushes to add the element of magic to the creature. I am pleased with the result, especially how the colouring of the horse extends up the horn to make it look like it really is a biological part of the animal, but I know that the quality of this type of shoot could look a lot better if I had more time and could get up-close-and-personal with the horses more, whereas these horses weren't very keen to stick around a lot especially when it started to rain. 

What I also achieved today was this edit. With this particular shot, I was inspired by a series of Doctor Who actually where this monster from another universe kept appearing in cracks in walls, the sky etc wherever they went. I thought that this could be a really interesting idea to replicate in my work, so I photographed the sky and, using brushes, created the 'crack' in the clouds. I didn't have enough time to shoot someone's face, so I used an image from the internet to simply test the idea and this was the result.  I like the effect, and so next lesson when I conduct another shoot I will be sure to photograph my own facial features and I can perhaps progress to create the cracks in other surfaces.