Montage-It!

The final workshop in Arch1142 was the simplest. The culmination of methods studied in the previous weeks, students are required to use a given artwork (below, left) to construct a model (below, middle and right).

Then to use these photographs of the model and Photoshop to create unique images. In doing this I made two images, one of the exterior of the model inset in a Microsoft Windows background...

The model has been stretched and distorted and a picture of a skyscraper warped and laid over it to make it appear as twin towers. The greenery in the at the base of the towers is part of Central Park in New York City. Lighting effects from the tops of the towers and the sun were created by adjusting the brightness through a "quick mask" with a "radial blur."

The name Shambhala comes from Tibetan mythology, it describes a sacred tower in a hidden kingdom deep in the mountains and was inspired by the perceived altitude and mountainous terrain in the background.

The second image is a photograph of the interior of the model looking through at a sunny sky, a rock texture has been copied, distorted and fitted to the model walls. The lighting effects are then supplied by simply laying the original picture of the model over the top with a lower opacity.

Then, a picture of a man abseiling on a mountain and one of a helicopter are combined to make the man appear as though he is rappelling from the helicopter into the cavern. This picture was a more literal interpretation of the original artwork.      

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