bon mardi: ccdn 244 | project one

After quite the struggle yesterday and today (the drive on my home computer is fast filling up and not coping very well) I handed in pretty much what I had wanted to at 5pm.

After the last entry, I continued to work on getting something interesting happening with my blocks and decided I wanted to insert them into the landscape in lieu of the boat houses at Titahi Bay.

I hadn't brought my jpeg/psd of the Titahi Bay Panorama so had to re-do it and discovered the school computers (that are running on PS CS5.5 - I am on CC at home) did a better job of merging my images. The boathouses also ended up in the middle as the main feature as opposed to being at the sides when I did it at home.

Here is the home version:

And the mini-world from it:

I used this for the first attempt at placing the blocks. Too skinny and fence-like.

I was not feeling altogether very happy with it so went back to the drawing board and redid the photo-merge - can't believe how much better it was - on the old version of the software, although it is probably something to to do with my overfilled drive.

I was a bit excited when this came out:

I will leave what I finally achieved till the final images of my post.

I will first of all mention that I also played with HDR on my way to the final hand-in:

Here is my final panorama of blocks. not as easy one might think - PS really didn't enjoy merging these. In the end it was a joint effort - I ended up manually stitching the right half together when PS just wasn't cutting it. As per my previous post, here, the blocks were a lot of fun to experiment with and helped me to better understand photomerge.