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Full title: In The Light...There's A Truth


"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."

- Barry Lopez

Walk-through Video

I have created a small video presentation/walkthrough on how I did this piece so if you'd like to see it, follow this link.

Tools

Photoshop CS2
Wacom Intuos 3


Total photos used

23


Credits

`lockstock
Original photos can be seen here: link, link.

From sxc.hu
agentsmith, costi, sabinki, rc5retro, micromoth, Egahen, vierdrie, puste80, bury-osiol, baronpatro, Ulrik, dannystock, iwd.

Some photos were purchased from Dreamstime.

*Print available at The Untapped Source

Comments


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:iconlockstock:
That's a wonderful piece! You did a fantastic job of blending the elements together.

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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it may be necessary from time to time to give the stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." -- Miss Piggy
:iconlanderoc:
Sophie, I'm very happy that you liked it and I appreciate your comments :dance:. Thanks a lot!
:iconcreadionizor:
I can't believe this was only viewed around 200 times! THIS IS AMAZING you got some very good art skills! Wow!

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Greetz Creadionizor (C)

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:iconmalena79:
:wow: Amazing piece! :worship: :clap:

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:iconremconinpo:
wonderfull. how did you get that effect on the girl? and the water??

realy beautifull!!
:iconlanderoc:
Thank you!

The effect on the girl was done by duplicating the layer of the girl, then applying a Gaussian Blur effect as Soft Light. The water is pretty much made out of a single photo, altered it using the Clone Tool to make it fit the image because the original photo was pretty small. Brightness and Contrast were altered as well and I also changed its color and that was pretty much it. :D
:iconsoulmate0:
this is a really special one,i really like this!![link]

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