City Apartments Composite by nickspicsnz

City Apartments Composite

Going through old photos I found an album of a day trip to Auckland. I posted this apartment block at the time but there were no people in it and I wished there were... so now I've added them. There are people on 14 balconies - can you spot them all?

I went through the street photos I took the same day to find the people and all the humans you can see in this photo have been added in. That's a LOT of layers as they've all been masked, colour adjusted, saturated or de-saturated, brightened or faded, masked at a low opacity to get the look through the glass, transformed to make them the right angle to the sun or, in the example of the man leaning on the wall, tilted, etc. etc. Because they're masked through the glass at a low opacity it means the lines behind them show through so they've all had to be cloned out too. It's taken quite a while to do but I've tried to make the additions look as realistic as I can. It's been great for learning and fun to do.
That's so cool, well manipulated!
January 24th, 2022  
This Is such a clever edit and deserves a fav
January 24th, 2022  
Awesome!
January 24th, 2022  
You've done a brilliant job and I would never have guessed! So professionally done.
January 24th, 2022  
A thoroughly seamless edit. Amazing! Sounds like a lot of work though.
January 24th, 2022  
Very well done!
January 24th, 2022  
Indeed, very well done!
January 24th, 2022  
Wonderful composite
January 24th, 2022  
Wow - dedication and skill. Looks great - fav.
January 24th, 2022  
Well done Nick!
January 24th, 2022  
The people add so much…a very cool image!
January 24th, 2022  
Well done.
January 24th, 2022  
very clever editing Nick
January 24th, 2022  
Such a cool shot with all of the repetition, yet differences on the balconies. Not surprised it made the TP.
January 25th, 2022  
Well done. This is very clever!
January 25th, 2022  
Wow I am so impressed - it is super cool!
January 25th, 2022  
Wow, sounds like a lot of work to get all of those people in there like that. Great shots and processing.
January 25th, 2022  
Nice work!
January 25th, 2022  
Wow you must be a Photoshop expert? Either way it's a great result.
January 25th, 2022  
This is fantastic.. looks like the Village people or a page from Where's Wally.
January 26th, 2022  
Brilliant editing.
January 26th, 2022  
This is smashing. Very clever.
January 26th, 2022  
Well done!
January 29th, 2022  
@sporenmaken @wakelys @linnypinny @ludwigsdiana @ljmanning @yorkshirekiwi @mona65 @joansmor @dide @shepherdmanswife @happypat @haskar @phil_howcroft @ggshearron @dkbarnett @christinav @rickster549 @kork @julzmaioro @wendyfrost @boxplayer @dridsdale Thank you all so much for your lovely comments and favs. Sorry for the delay in replying. This was so much fun to do - headphones on listening to an audio book while I just masked away.
@jon_lip Thanks Jon. Not an expert by any means but I've learnt a lot over the last couple of years. :)
January 29th, 2022  
amazing pattern!
January 29th, 2022  
Excellent work. It looks very natural.
February 10th, 2022  
Impressive! So masterfully done that it looks entirely natural!
February 11th, 2022  
This is amazing and I can't even imagine how time consuming it was!
February 11th, 2022  
Amaaaazing edit!
February 15th, 2022  
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