Photomontage...not

[plastic_]

I'm not posting images usually, but here is one where I make a point.
That it may be easier to recreate a location, than doing a fiddly photomontage.

Since the project is about restoring desolate social housing blocks, it's a bonus that the image looks "100% new".

[greysheep5]

i know, we already talked about that yesterday marc, but i get your point.

sadly not always possible this "easy"! in our case for example we also had to deal with a shitty photo as the starting point, and had all kinds of trouble to get clean results with the trees in the foreground (right in the picture), but it was not a possibility to recreate all the surrounding. so, lots of digging around in a dirty compressed jpeg was the only chance we had because those damn trees overlapped pretty much everything in the right parts of the image and we only had this one (awfully colored and tilt shifted when we got it) image from the client (and not too much time) to start with.

cheers,

christoph.

[add101]

@platic_ Nice matching of the vegetation. I thought the guy on the photo was 3d at first looks like one of the guys from AXYZ or Lowpoly colections.

@greysheep5 Mickey! cool, what is that building? imax theatre?

[greysheep5]

no, that´s a montage for a planned installation for the upcoming claes oldenburg exhibition in the mumok (museum of modern art, stiftung ludwig) in the viennese MQ (museumsquartier), vienna, austria. the black cube in the picture is the mumok and the whole area is one of the nicer and chillier public spaces in vienna, not only for tourist and visitors of the museums there.

may be up in reality during the claes oldenburg retrospective starting in january, given that they get the sponsoring to really build this thing. i heard it may cost a fortune and the artist probably wants to just hang up the renderings somewhere, which of course would be cool for us.

cheers,

christoph.

[dlparisi]

I'm not posting images usually, but here is one where I make a point.
That it may be easier to recreate a location, than doing a fiddly photomontage.

Since the project is about restoring desolate social housing blocks, it's a bonus that the image looks "100% new".

Totally agree. My usual rule of thumb when I'm pricing a job is that it the price is the same whether I do a photomontage or build the complete environment in 3D. I either spend my time matching perspectives, matching lighting, integrating shadows, cleaning up the existing photo, etc., etc., OR I spend my time building curbs, sidewalks, grass, adding people, trees, etc. In my experience they usually end up being about the same (of course it depends on the shot).

[plastic_]

@platic_ Nice matching of the vegetation. I thought the guy on the photo was 3d at first looks like one of the guys from AXYZ or Lowpoly colections.

@greysheep5 Mickey! cool, what is that building? imax theatre?

LOL I see why you think the guy is 3d. Because he is fat (wide angle corner), as are all AXIZ and lowpoly3d people. Why are they fat anyway? I don't get it...