Voting for Sep 23 - Sep 30 Weekly Challenge: "Wet Multiplicicity"

"Wet Multiplicicity"

Please vote for your choice of this week's Weekly Photo Challenge theme. The voting round will remain open for 3 days. In the event of a tie, the Weekly Photo Challenge Team will select a final winner. The winner of each challenge will select the topic for the next challenge!

Congratulations to this week's finalists:

@Felisek
@cwgrizz
@thequeenschees
@paul04



Thank you to all who participated in this challenge!

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Eyelight said:

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Congratulations to the finalists

I voted but my voted in the morning is gone

O.K. I voted again, it worked

Michael Jaeger said:

I voted but my voted in the morning is gone

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We relaunched the poll so your vote was wiped out. Since you re-voted, all is well.

Got about half a day left in the polling time for anyone who hasn't cast their vote on this one.

The winner of Sep 23 - Sep 30 Weekly Challenge : "Wet Multiplicity"
gaining 58.33% of the votes cast in the final round polling is:

Congratulations

When you get here, @cwgrizz , tell us the steps to do your image.

Congratulations cwgrizz,

I enjoyed this challenge, really had to get the thinking cap on to work out how to do it.

Thanks to all who liked and voted. THANKS TO ALL WHO ATTEMPTED THIS!!!

I found this to be a fun challenge that I had never tried before this. It took quite a bit of thought on how to do this. I had seen examples of this in the thread that was referenced in the beginning of this challenge. Here is the way I approached it. First I planned what I wanted to end up with. Then I needed to plan for the time of taking the shots to avoid moving shadows etc. (only to make the assembly of the shots easier). Here are the three shots I started with:


I then loaded each on into GIMP as layers. I guess you would call this first one as the background/base photo.

Then the next two and added a "Layer Mask" to the last two.






The use of "layer masks" and painting out either what you don't want to show through or what you want to show through. Easier done than putting it in words. Ha!


And the final result. The "lasso" tool and Layer Masks and some painting were most of the tools used. (Photoshop has similar tools to use, I'm sure. I have never even seen a Photoshop screen, let alone used PS. Ha) Anyway that is how I did it in a nutshell.


Hope this helps. I went this route, even though the dark room, camera set to "bulb" and off camera flash fired as you move around, would have been eaiser: I don't have a dark room or OCF. Ha!

Again thanks to all for your participation!

Oh, I forgot to mention that my wife got a big kick out of me running back and forth to change cloths between shots. In fact one time I forgot when redoing a shot and had the wrong clothes on for the particular part of the scene. She is amused easily or maybe I am just good at amusing her. Ha!!

Congratulation. Thank you for your tutorial as well

Congrats and thanks, Walt.

Congrats @cwgrizz!

cwgrizz the change of clothes was great great touch.