Hyacintho Pardis (Blue Leopard)

Project: The Constructed Image

Photos taken with Nikon D70

 

Creation:

• Taken at 1/45 sec, f/4.5, ISO200, and 46 mm focal length

• Exposure: +2.85
• Contrast: +20
• Whites: +31
• Blacks: -6

• Cropped Image

• Brush tool used to paint the background black on a new layer
• Blending option set to “Hue”

Taken at 1/6 sec, f/3.5, ISO320, and 18 mm focal length (from “Wild Card” project)

• Eyedropper tool used to match the color of Archie’s eyes
• Image cropped to the size of the first image

• Image opened as a new layer over the original background
• Mask utilized to lower the opacity of the background layer in the middle of the image

[Layer Scheme]

Final Product

*Special thanks to Bailey Kravitz, for feeding turkey to cats