Decaying London by Tanglimara
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I must say a huge thanks again to everyone who favourited my last image 'Tranquil Evening' as it got me to 20th in this weeks 'Favourites Image' Art Chart ... so THANK YOU !!!!
Todays upload is something new for me as everything was done in Photoshop. It is made up of parts of 14 different photographs, 38 layers and took me 3 days to complete. I did this after seeing some fantastic 2D artwork on 3dtotal.com.
The idea behind this one was to take an image of the inside of the busy London Museum and to place it in the future after all human life has ceased. There are a couple of images on 3dtotal.com that used the same base image for a competition and is also where my inspiration came from.
I removed all the people and displays from the museum via the 'eraser' and 'clone stamp' tools, demolished some of the walls, windows and roof, again via the 'eraser' tool as well as manually painting in the cracks to the structure and ageing the brickwork.
I applied the same technique to the cathedral in the background and also added Big Ben.
Next up was to take a picture of a London bus, remove the driver, passengers, roof and some of the windows as well as smashing the remaining windows and aging the paintwork. The same was done with the abandoned car which I flipped onto its roof and part buried in some rubble.
The sky was created by cloning and overlaying parts of some photographs of mine and fiddling with the brightness and saturation levels.
Foliage was then added by cloning plants, branches and a tree from numerous other photographs.
Every layer was then transformed and skewed in order to get the overall perspective correct.
Finally I rendered the lighting on everything to throw light onto the far end of the museum.
Enjoy ... Tony :-)
Comments (184)
3dsync
This is a great image! This was a good idea also
kitzie21
I can't even begin to wrap my mind around what it took to make this image, both technically and artistically. What a fantastic image!
PhilW
Fantastic work and thanks for sharing how it was done - amazing image!
fractalinda
Amazing work. WOW.
three_grrr
Wow! Did someone already say WOW?? I too saw a that program on Discover Channel, and this is very much in the same vein. Your version is awesome, mind boggling, and a bit scarey .. takes my mind into what the future may hold.
evielouise
Hi tony : This is a very late post: However I thought I would look around ,seeing you were so nice to drop by mine I love what I see and you have some wonderul works going on Congratulations on this one it's fabulous and scary and it certainly should be way up there wow!bravo! let me browse away I will be back::a big 5 ++
Kyms_Cave
Stunning...
annika_marie
You have beautiful work in your gallery!You are a fantastic artist!!
mel841
Masterful composition!!
alan42
quite a process! it turned out really well and that dark sky sets it off well - good job:)
OrphanedSoul
I would say you have succeeded this is grogeous!
kasalin
Excellent !!! Fantastic image and scene !!! Great and lovely !!!
cyberknight1133
Very well done. Nice sense of perspective.
lucindawind
FABULOUS WOW !
eres
Amazing work of art!!!!! Serge
radon1284
all i can say is wow realistic men
-M.-
super! -M.-
SidheRoseGraphics
The lighting in this piece is ace! Fantastic picture.
StyleKnight
Tony really cool things you do, love it
Optiramma
Absolutely fantastic!!! What a great style and appreciate all the detailed technical work, the result is organically explosive! Bravo!!!
ILO2
Hi Tony,gorgeous image and congrats
MaraP
Oustanding scene!! Love it
lyron
Simply Great!!
nikita_s_cold
This is amazing!!! You're a regular Photoshop Jedi! Dude, this...is wonderful! I wish I could say more. The whole sense of it is overwhelming. To begin with I have a soft spot for decaying, crumbling buildings. To me, they are an artform in and of themselves. There's something hyper-romantic about walking through ruins especially after it has been over-run with foliage. This image just lept out at me because of it's large, expansive scope. This is a ruin I would love to walk through or just sit in, and ruminate. Nicely done, mister!
anahata.c
There's a scene at the end of "Nostalgia" by Tarkovsky (the filmmaker) with the shell of a cathedral in the middle of a forest. Not suggesting you copied or saw it—this is wholly your own—but to say you're in fine company. It's a highly complex work, filled with nightscape hues and shadows, and the kind of spindly tendrils that typify cathedral architecture especially when exposed like this. But you really give everything its due. There's actually much beauty despite the menace; the back facade is lit and actually quite inviting; the vaulting actually feels like structures from the Eiffel Tower, and its exposure is quite enticing; and you've got a nice balance between inside & outside as if both exist in the same space'. Still, it's spooky and devastated, a debris-laden vision, and that big branch left to center flows nicely with the whole. You do fine & thoughtful work.
Nuria
Superb work !!!!! AWESOME !!!
jaffna1964
WOW !
Zooreka_
Crumbs Tony - You Outdid yourself with this one Mate!!!! When I faved it I wrote 'Lewisham without a Doubt'... I stand by every word!!!! - The Effects of Thatcherism undoubtedly!!!!
Margana
"It is made up of parts of 14 different photographs, 38 layers and took me 3 days to complete." You sound like me, I have one right now with 42 layers, lol. I hope your pc could handle it better than mine. Mine keeps freezing up on me... :^/ Anyhoo... this is brilliant, Tony. I love the branch in the foreground. It gives this sush a wonderful depth. Fabulous work with the foliage, too. It was the perfect touch for this. Bravo on you. M :^)
dts
there is nothing i can say but a holly legend here , welldone my friend , god i miss manchester.