The reconstruction of the past - LMAC 41 collage

[quantumg]

Hello,

At first I had no idea, what to do with the template photo from @shaka. So I used my fantasy to look back in time. I tried to imagine how this scene would looked like in the far past. Then I noticed this was exactly the idea I needed for participating the LMAC 41 Contest and I decided to screw the time back.

Welcome to 1335 AD

A little bit of photo montage and a bunch of optical tricks later...

(The mountains you can see in the photo from 1335 were completely broken down by profit-hungry stone traders until 2020!!!!!!)

My material sources

The template photo from @shaka. I used some little parts from it for rebuilding the building, too.

There are three ancient people in my collage. I cut them out of two photos I took on a medieval market.

I also needed a window. Fortunately, I found one in a photo from Netherlands/Kerkrade.

The archway in he collage is from a photo I took in a zoo. It is a zoo in a fake castle in Germany/Kronberg (Opelzoo).

I removed the sky from the template photo and replaced it with a photo I took in Waltenhofen in Germany/Bayern (Near Schwangau).
Do you see the dragon and the sleeping giant? It's all about fantasy.

Time lapse of the process in a GIF

I made screenshots of every few steps...

Best regards
QuantumG

Comments

[agmoore]

The final effect is wonderful, but I love the process video even more. I also went back in time, but came up with a completely different effect (less artistic than yours, I believe).

The mountains you can see in the photo from 1335 were completely broken down by profit-hungry stone traders until 2020!!!!!!)

This touched me. When I was a child I lived next to a wonderful hill, a grassy knoll we would climb after crossing a stream. One day, large earth movers came and took the hill away, shovel by shovel. It was such a violation, not only of the scenery but of of nature. Short-term profit, long term damage to the environment.

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