Surreal Montage

For this project I was tasked with finding photos online and from magazines and create a picture combining them all in an interesting way. I chose to take pictures of African animals but make them into stars in the sky. I took pictures of a giraffe, a lion, a bird and an elephant and cut out the backgrounds of the pictures. Then I took the shapes of the animals and made the animal silhouettes using a star background. Then I placed the animal silhouettes on top of a picture of the night sky I took and changed the brightness and contrast of the animals to make them stand out but still make them appear to be made out of stars. I took a photo of an African savannah in the daytime and changed the colors and darkness levels to make it look like the picture was taken at night I'm pretty happy with the way way it came out; the eye goes right to the animals when someone sees the montage. It's very Lion King-inspired and I guess you could say it represents all the endangered animals that get killed in Africa and how they now roam in the stars.