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Dragonfly

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I am taking a new photograph course and learning about lightroom and making images black and white with a little extra (so no converting from colour to black and white). Thats why I thought to make a photomanipulation in black and white with just a touch of colour. I called this dragonfly because of the little dragonfly that comes by to check out this lady which is trapped, not only by her cloths (ducktape and plastic) but also by the surrounding tree that seems to want to grab her and never let go.

Stocks used (for which I am very grateful):
Model Sarah Ballet 1a who is :iconsarahbella5: and was photographed by :iconjagged-eye:
Grass Stock 
birch leaves 
the background is from :iconnathies-stock:  Premade Forest Background by nathies-stock
The dragonfly is from pixelsquid

Steps:
Took background and made it my own black and white version in lightroom
Got model, made cutout two ways, first the whole model without the background, second part of her skin. made whole cutout black and white with camera raw in photoshop
Copied background and blurred it. Gave it mask and brushed away the parts on the non-blurred vesrion that were in foreground.
The background had water in front and I wanted her to sit on the ground so there was the grass, placed it in the background to fit and with camera raw made it black and white to fit the rest of the image.
Made the whole model black and white in camera raw and merged that layer with the partial model layer so now she is black and white with a part of her skin in colour.
copied that layer, adjusted in brightness (0%/contrast 100%) and adjuted again with levels, totally black. Used that to make her shadow on the ground. Cut out the parts that I didnt need and blurred the shadow to look more natural.
Finetuned the models skin, brigtened lips and eyes, patched one thing on her leg, the photo was to beautiful to change a lot, so just a little smoothning and brightning, that was it.
got the leaves and copied the small one a couple of times, cutout some parts to make them fit the arm of the model and got the wider one at the right side of the image to have a flow in the leaves. Made them all black and white and added a gradient filter to fit the existing background leaves to the imported leaves.
Pasted a copy of the model over the leaves, to have it go around her arm instead of over her arm.
Copied a small part of the right side of the background to put over the leaves to have a natural flow in the image.
Added some extra light in the colour of the models skin and added some highligts on the trees and model in the same colour.
Made a flat copy of all the layers.
Went back to camera raw and did some of my own settings, bleekening the orange of the skin and lights for a more black and white feel.
Used a painting action I made and put that layer in a soft light over the original layer, cutting back on transparancy so it wouldnt look "painted" but give it just a little more oemph ;)
Went to NIK and added a vignette and a little glow.

Photoshop CC2017
Layers: 32
Size:width 3543px - height 4724px, 300 dpi, 16bit
(30x40cms) 

Thats it, hope you like it.
Image size
3543x4724px 4.81 MB
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Karyl-Delta's avatar
It´s really beautiful Karin!