Insect Final Piece

For my final piece I chose to adapt my previous images further and place them into a background of a swamp.

The biggest challenge here was rendering the lighting properly and shading in equal measure. This was difficult because of the angle the light casts at causes a huge contrast between parts of the insect that are bathed in sunlight and areas in shadow. Because of this I had to remove a fair amount of detail from the original insect image in order to achieve this but would lesson the effect of the overall image.

Here is the original image I used for the background which I modified for my uses.

Deep Swamp 2 Michel Rondberg on March 24, 2012