“Moonlit”

„You must wait and watch and one night you will
understand, the language of the phases of the Moon.” 

―  Avijeet Das

The original sketch

In this picture I have finally realized a concept, which I had in mind for a long time. A rowboat, which is attached to a cloud in the sky, next to a small wooden hut on this cloud in front of a night sky and shining moon. I came back to the long-planned concept rather by coincidence. I was looking for images on Unsplash for new works and the wooden hut caught my eye. This fit exactly to the picture, what I had before my eyes. I downloaded the hut and looked directly for a picture for the planned cloud. All images used are linked below.

Matching pictures

After I had the cabin and the cloud it was still a matter of finding a suitable rowing boat, which turned out to be no problem. Then I started to superimpose the images with a low opacity to get a nice composition. The cloud image I had as background was too short in length. So I had to extend the image artificially, but managed to do that easily with brushes, copy stamps and overlay effects. After I was done with it, the only thing missing was the moon and the beautiful matching starry sky. Then I added a brightness gradient to make it look more realistic.

Colors and atmosphere

The light is reflected by the moon and in this image comes from the upper, back, right corner. I wanted to emphasize this light dark contrast with color a bit. To do this, I have adjusted the light shades and the deep shades in the image color and was quite satisfied with the red blue/green contrast. At the very end, the foreground was still too empty for me. That's why I added two more clouds and blurred them a bit to create some depth of field in the image. Then I adjusted the noise in the individual images to each other and was satisfied with the result. I hope you like it.