Photo-montage of an elephant walking in a street Photo Blog P#420 :

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P#420: Photo-montage of an elephant walking in a street.

Yep, another matte... Well even if I can't post a matte each time, it's actually my mood. The background was taken with the Canon 20D in Guadeloupe, and the elephant is from the Gramby Zoo in Québec with the Canon 5D. As you may notice there's some work here, the elephant masking was done using brush and channels, that was long and painfull (wacom 'tennis' elbow), but finally I'm relatively pleased with the result. Special thanks for this picture goes to Lomoseb and Marc. Thanks goes to all for your comments and support I really appreciate it. I have been nicely surprised by the last post visits, it breaks all my personnal records, that's nice, even if I'm conscious that more traffic doesn't mean better quality, my ego is pretty happy :D Another special thanks goes to Stumble Upon users, last post was clearly "pushed up" by this community (more than 35 thumbs up)... Thank you! As a SU user too, I did not imagine how it could be so powerfull to press the "I like it!" button :D Finally if you need some inspiration, I post, almost everyday, pictures I found nice and inspiring (this actually is my tastes of the moment...) at Laurent Batailley Images Clipboard Thanks and good night.

Comments about this picture post:

• Amazing shot ...
  And truly amazing photoshop work to build your vision.
  Alex @ 2008-10-19 18:15:53
• thank you alex!Laurent @ 2008-10-19 19:10:27
• Amazing shot, this elephant looks totally out of place in the scene!Claus Petersen @ 2008-10-20 04:38:43
• Excellent composition and treatment idea !Vink @ 2008-10-20 05:31:36
• Thank you guys!Laurent @ 2008-10-20 11:14:21
• You certainly fooled me with this photoshop feat.michael @ 2008-10-20 15:56:51
• Excellente idée que tu as rendue magnifiquement.sylvainman @ 2008-10-20 23:24:05
• hot hot !!marijan @ 2008-10-21 02:51:31
• Excellent !Faucher Romain @ 2008-10-21 04:44:43
• Awesome shot! The processing it very good on this shot. Subtle and effective.Jay @ 2008-10-21 09:07:34
• Thank you / Merci :DLaurent @ 2008-10-21 10:57:24
• ...pfiou, quel boulot ! bravo.Tit' @ 2008-10-27 06:28:10
• Incredible. This is done perfectly!Xu @ 2008-10-27 10:01:26
• @Tit': merci! bravo pour tes photos de plats, chouettes :D
  @Xu: thank you, it looks that this time you're not the first :D See you.Laurent @ 2008-10-27 11:49:13
• génial cette image, vraiment inattendue !hippolyte @ 2008-11-02 15:32:55
• Awesome! Fantástica!Miguel Michán @ 2008-11-24 14:14:03
• hey pal | thats really good job | i was knocked the first time | was like gosh _ thats one in a million opportunity | then i saw tat before/after job _ so what ?
  
  that doesnt stop from sayin _ how bloody good job this is _ kudos
  
  
  
  goodlife to u :)fotomurthy @ 2008-12-25 10:14:04
• ..all your works are fantastic! I like your site, specially the button "before/after", i think is a good idea for understand your genius. Ciao.Angelo @ 2009-03-12 10:17:39
• I want to see the tut :-(Jason N @ 2009-05-03 22:23:34
• Excelente, perfectly!Marcelo Aurelio @ 2009-11-06 20:48:40
• Absolutely wonderful. The processing and manipulation is of top quality. Well done!Beau Mitchell @ 2009-11-06 20:49:51