Beyond the Camera Illusion

Our first assignment for Beyond the Camera is to create a simple illusion composition using the software Photoshop to manipulate an image. I haven't had much experience with Photoshop and so I was a bit hesitant with this assignment, I therefore decided to keep the idea really simple to try and make it the best.

The first idea that came to my head was to create something involving cards and a rabbit coming out of a magicians hat, while I liked the idea and thought it could develop nicely, I didn't feel confident enough that my skills could create it realistically . So I went back to the drawing board!

While watching a documentary with David Attenborough inspiration struck, I wanted to have a bird flying out of a television. Finding the image for the bird proved a challenge, attempting to get my own picture of a bird in flight wouldn't have been easy and so I decided to find one online. However after testing many out, I found they were too small to make an impact.

I then came across an image of an eagle which fitted perfectly. And so here's the finished piece! I wish i'd made the background look a bit more like the sky, rather than being so plain and added in a shadow where one naturally would have occurred  but i'm still happy with how it turned out.

I'm hoping once I better improve my Photoshop skills I can try out the magicians hat idea, fingers crossed I can make it work!