Fantasy Photo 1 -Di Liu

Di Liu

As part of the course I have to manipulate four Photos using Photoshop I have taken some inspiration from Photographers that manipulate they work.
Below is my first attempt at this and using photo shop for the first time was very confusing to say the least. I have used, Di Liu as my first example as I love the way Di Liu, a 25-year-old Chinese photographer, worked on the difficult relationship between nature and human society, the consequences of the galloping urbanization in China today.

Di Liu, a 25 year old chinese photographer won the 2010 lacoste elysée prize. His work examines the relationship between animals and the city, and it’s totally awesome.
The perpetual conflict between man and nature is illustrated by young Chinese photographer Di Liu in a series of photos depicting oversized animals at odds with their settings. The rapid changes in urban development play a major role, of course, in this conflict. However, despite the seriousness of the situation, Di Liu chooses to highlight it by using humour and playing with scale.

Here is my attempt,

I used a photo that I had taken in the Peak district and combined it with a photo of a sheep that I took whilst at Calke abbey using photo shop and the Magnetic lasso tool.
I like what I have done as it shows the dominance of the sheep in the peak distict and the fact that they are such a large part of the country side not forgetting that they can block our path at any given time.